Return-path: Received: from sabertooth01.qualcomm.com ([65.197.215.72]:6551 "EHLO sabertooth01.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755215AbdKOKBk (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Nov 2017 05:01:40 -0500 From: Kalle Valo To: Peter Oh CC: "Harms, Hannes" , Ben Greear , "ath10k@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: mesh point and ap mode on same interface Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 10:01:36 +0000 Message-ID: <87po8jhncx.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> (sfid-20171115_110145_329005_A7788683) References: <43bf6a27-be58-35e4-26fa-5e6b380353ac@bowerswilkins.com> <7dc592a5-9381-f715-6ea7-0a8b8deee311@tu-bs.de> <5c04c7fe-8cf8-ddd8-d6a7-f42629586a63@bowerswilkins.com> <067d234a-59f0-4175-55af-9354617057b9@tu-bs.de> <61192d3b-b4c7-f47e-2ff9-44e17595d6a9@bowerswilkins.com> <03700343-7b5c-b21e-8b7b-2ac8c7d3258b@bowerswilkins.com> In-Reply-To: <03700343-7b5c-b21e-8b7b-2ac8c7d3258b@bowerswilkins.com> (Peter Oh's message of "Wed, 8 Nov 2017 10:13:16 -0800") Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: (adding linux-wireless for a cfg80211 question) Peter Oh writes: > On 11/08/2017 04:49 AM, Harms, Hannes wrote: > >> I found a solution for the problem: >> >> When joining the mesh with beacon interval set to 100 >> both mesh and ap interface are coming up. >> >> > iw mesh0 mesh join my_mesh beacon-interval 100 >> >> The default beacon interval is 1000 for mesh interfaces. >> It seems that QCA9880 is not working >> with different beacon intervals for ap + mesh. > > Good to hear that working. But mesh beacon interval 1000 which is > default value should work. Any mesh beacon intervals of multiple of AP > beacon intervals are supposed to work. > > (In other words, mesh beacon intervals that are not aligned by >multiple of AP beacon intervals won't work). These are valid for both >of QCA9880 and QCA4019 as far as I know. It would be nice if ath10k could print a warning if the beacon intervals are not compatible. Or is there a way to enforce the beacon interval with help of cfg80211 or mac80211? --=20 Kalle Valo=