Slow the cellphone log spam

Banana Pi Router design OpenWRT One(MT7981)/BPI-R2 Mini
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Are you seeing lots of hostapd log-spam from cell phones which go to sleep, then wake up, connect again, transfer a bit of data, then go back to sleep, rinse and repeat?

You can attempt to set the hostapd / wireless / wpad logging in /etc/config/wireless, but it won’t work. hostapd / wpad bypasses all log_level settings and continues printing its output to the logs.

None of these in /etc/config/wireless work:

config wifi-device 'radio0'
    option log_mlme '0'          
    option log_iapp '0'          
    option log_driver '0'        
    option log_wpa '0'     
    option log_radius '0'  
    option log_8021x '0'   
    option log_80211 '0'   
    option log_level '3'

So we’ll disable hostapd / wpad logging. I recommend only doing this once you know everything is working properly.

Issue:

vi /etc/init.d/wpad

Press i to enter editing mode.

Make the following changes:

THIS LINE:	procd_set_param command /usr/sbin/hostapd -s -g /var/run/hostapd/global

CHANGED TO:	procd_set_param command /usr/sbin/hostapd -g /var/run/hostapd/global

THIS LINE:	procd_set_param command /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -n -s -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant/global

CHANGED TO:	procd_set_param command /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -n -g /var/run/wpa_supplicant/global

Press Esc to exit editing mode, then :wq to save and exit.

Issue:

/etc/init.d/wpad restart

Now your logs will be quieter.