The vendor 5.10 kernel is built without CONFIG_BRIDGE, and that absence has
shaped the firmware: the panel's access point has to be its own subnet with its
own DHCP pool instead of joining the LAN, and warden_router_set_zone() treats a
second LAN port as impossible. Both carry a code comment saying "this kernel has
no bridge".
Turning it on is what lets a Client-mode panel run an access point the way an
ordinary ceiling AP does -- wlan0 and the wired uplink in one broadcast domain,
addresses handed out by whatever router is already upstream.
Verified on the bench panel: before, `ip link add type bridge` returned
"Operation not supported"; on this kernel the bridge is created and eth0
enslaves into it (/sys/class/net/br0/brif/eth0). WireGuard, iptables and VLAN
still work.
Also fixes a warden-modbus path in architecture.md left stale by the apps/ move.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T2D2KtdgwbhbF6Mo64eUrn
