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Fork-CI matrix run for openwrt#30071 head 1d68429: log-roller degrades instead of blocking start, roll at startup, test.sh/test-version.sh split, commit body covers patch 150. Not for merge.

Add the prplMesh 6.0.1 EasyMesh controller and agent for stock OpenWrt.
The package keeps the installed hostapd/wpad stack and drives it over
the existing UCI, ubus, nl80211 and hostapd control sockets.

The hostapd control interface client is a small self-contained
implementation added by patch 120, so no hostapd source tree is
downloaded, bundled or duplicated at build time and the system hostapd
stays the only hostapd. Binaries install under /usr/libexec/prplmesh,
read-only data under /usr/share/prplmesh, shared libraries under
/usr/lib, configuration under /etc/config/prplmesh. Of the prplOS
helper scripts only prplmesh_utils.sh is installed: patch 161 teaches
its platform guard stock OpenWrt and the init's daily log roller
invokes it; the other helpers stay uninstalled.

Stock builds run without NBAPI, so the controller skips the
CurrentOperatingClassProfile data-model cleanup for radios without a
data model path, and legacy vendor diagnostic measurements default to
off while standard EasyMesh metrics stay enabled. The controller also
registers radios that appear only in Topology Responses: some stock
agents never run WSC onboarding for a band (Wi-Fi 7 units and their
6 GHz radio), and such radios, their BSSes and their clients stayed
invisible otherwise. Agents in turn import clients that are already
associated when the agent starts: patch 150 walks hostapd's
STA-FIRST/STA-NEXT list on the nl80211 AP and monitor HALs and
reconciles the result every 60 seconds, so stations that associated
while the agent was down appear without waiting for a reassociation,
and stale entries are disconnected only after a cleanly enumerated
sweep. The init preflights every binary the selected management mode
needs before registering any procd instance, and the example
credentials ship empty so an enabled but unconfigured service fails
validation loudly instead of deploying a published passphrase.
A test-version.sh verifies the installed version from the shipped
version file instead of probing daemons, and a test.sh checks the
shipped log levels and the roll-helper install.

Production log levels default to error, info, warning and fatal for
file and syslog output of both daemons, log retention is enforced by
the upstream roll helper (its platform guard now accepts openwrt)
driven from a procd-supervised roller that rolls once at startup and
then daily; an image stripped of the helper runs without rotation
instead of refusing to start. Link-metrics reporting no longer warns
about wireless-capable radios deliberately not used for backhaul.

An earlier revision of this integration, differing only in the wpa_ctrl
client origin and the install prefix, runs on OpenWrt 25.12.5
mediatek/mt7622 with two Ethernet-connected EasyMesh agents.

Ref: https://gitlab.com/prpl-foundation/prplmesh/prplMesh
Ref: https://gitlab.com/kreout/prpl-mesh-mercusys/-/merge_requests/1
Signed-off-by: Andrei Ovcharenko <[email protected]>
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Matrix green on 021abe2 (all 10 jobs): https://github.com/krotname/packages/actions/runs/31057404842 — closing, CI-only PR.

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