[OpenWrt-Devel] How to trigger wifi reload from wifi.lua

[John Crispin]

On 24/10/2019 14:18, Daniel Golle wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 01:21:56PM +0200, Jo-Philipp Wich wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> On the Luci GUI, the current behaviour of Save&Apply of changes to the
>>> items in wifi.lua and wireless_modefreq.htm is to invoke a network
>>> restart. I would like to to change this behavior to invoke wifi restart
>>> directly from wifi.lua.
>>
>> This is not supported and will confuse the netifd wireless state
>> tracking. You should instead extend the netifd wireless handlers to
>> properly deal with updated values.
> 
> John and me have been working on this in the past months, I'm now doing
> a final round of rebasing and testing right now.
> Take a look at my staging tree here:
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/dangole.git;a=summary

thanks for wrapping this feature up !
	John
> 
> What is new here is that hostapd and wpa_supplicant are running
> permanently and offering a ubus interface to add, remove and modify
> wifi interfaces. netifd and the scripts previously wrapping around
> hostapd/wpa_supplicant have been modified to make use of that.
> You can easily test it by modifying the wireless configuration and
> calling 'wifi reconf', changes should take effect immediatly without
> affecting unmodified networks.
> 
> Currently, there is still one instance of each service for each
> wiphy, however, once things have been tested a bit more, we can
> reduce this and use the same service to manage interfaces accross
> radios -- this should already be supported in hostapd/wpa_supplicant
> right now, however, we intend to change things one by one to make
> debugging easier.
> 
> I'd highly appreciate all reviewing and testing of our changes, I'm
> planning to merge them into master at the end of next week after
> posting a comprehensive series on the mailing list tomorrow or monday.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>
>>
>> ~ Jo
>>
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