[OpenWrt-Devel] synchronous network reload/restart

[Zefir Kurtisi]

On 03/26/2015 06:54 PM, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
> Hi.
> 
>> Is there any way to synchronously (blocking) reload or restart the
>> network configuration?
>>
>> "ubus call network reload" (or "restart") returns immediately, and the
>> re-configuration happens asynchronously in the background. I'd like the
>> command to block or otherwise wait until the reconfiguration is
>> complete. Any way to achieve this?
> 
> No.
> 
> ~ Jow

Potential 'workarounds'

1) if you need to wait for your AP
use e.g. 'ubus -t 30 wait_for hostapd.wlan0'
to wait for it up to 30 secs to show up

2) to synchronize PROCD startup-scripts
add a service_started() method in your scripts that does busy-polling for
procd/netifd to bring up services. This blocks subsequent init-scripts from being
executed before your current script is done.


Some kind of dependency tracking within procd would help for sure (e.g. 'start
this service only after services x+y are running'), but given how services are
handled as independent instances now, this would add lots of complexity to modules
that must not fail.
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