[OpenWrt-Devel] [hostapd] AP+STA mode support in Upstream Hostapd

[Daniel Golle]

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 03:19:52PM +0530, Sathishkumar Muruganandam wrote:
> On 2018-05-30 11:44, John Crispin wrote:
> > > ...
> > Hi,
> > 
> > the original commit was
> > 
> > commit 35cdc5d722883cac8b524ea803ee7eedca844087
> > Author: Felix Fietkau <nbd at openwrt.org>
> > Date:   Sat Oct 23 23:39:54 2010 +0000
> > 
> >     hostapd/mac80211: implement support for AP+STA
> > 
> >     SVN-Revision: 23602
> > 
> > for future reference, you can use one of gits less known features to
> > track these down ...
> > git log --follow
> > package/network/services/hostapd/patches/340-reload_freq_change.patch
> > 
> >     John
> 
> Thanks for your reply, John !
> 
> We want to go beyond and find more details about the commit message of each
> patch. Is there any way to access "SVN-Revision: 23602" info ?

I guess back at the days of subversion nobody really left more than
one line of a commit message. So what you see above is all there is.

> 
> Also whether these patches were already sent for upstream review ? We were
> planning to upstream these patches to hostapd.

No and at least I believe it would be quite difficult to do so.
The direction of the hostap project seems to be to cover most AP
functionality in wpa_supplicant and have a single process for all
virtual interfaces (or even all radios in a system).
This is how it is done on Android or how NetworkManager creates
a tethering AP.
On OpenWrt we do things differently and run hostapd for all AP
interfaces and wpa_supplicant for all client and mesh interfaces of
an individual radio. Only this makes signalling between hostapd and
wpa_supplicant necessary.

> 
> Any thoughts ?


> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Sathishkumar
> 
> _______________________________________________
> openwrt-devel mailing list
> openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
> https://lists.openwrt.org/listinfo/openwrt-devel

_______________________________________________
openwrt-devel mailing list
openwrt-devel at lists.openwrt.org
https://lists.openwrt.org/listinfo/openwrt-devel