[LEDE-DEV] Backporting stuff to lede-17.01

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 6 February 2017 at 00:39, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 February 2017 at 12:32, Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> There are few changes that recently went into master and I'd like to
>> see in lede-17.01. Let me what do you think, if backporting any of
>> these is a bad idea.
>>
>> 1) bgmac support for external PHYs
>> 6a853776a502 ("kernel: backport bgmac support for external PHYs")
>> This adds support for some AP devices that don't have external switch
>> or just don't use internal one. Driver is used by brcm47xx/mips74k and
>> bcm53xx, I can test it (and I do) with both targets.
>>
>> 2) hostapd support for complete logging
>> 37b489fe0417 ("hostapd: backport support for sending debug messages to
>> the syslog")
>> This allows reading all error messages (and debugging ones if you
>> enable them) from the syslog (logread command). I find it very
>> important for debugging wireless/hostapd issues. This is a pretty
>> simple single hostapd patch.
>>
>> 3) brcmfmac update
>> There were quite a few improvements/fixes for brcmfmac. That includes
>> small fixes & debugging improvements. There are still some people
>> reporting problems with brcmfmac so getting useful info even with
>> 17.01 release would be desired.
>> We use brcmfmac for BCM43602 & BCM4366 PCIe devices and we support 4
>> routers with these. I own 3 of them so my testing should have a good
>> coverage.
>> One minor risk is I can't test brcmfmac with Raspberry Pi. The good
>> thing is that all patches were backported separately (and in few
>> commits) so any regression should be trivial to track.
>
> Done as noone objected.
>
> So far I tested brcmfmac with BCM43602 only. I was testing with 2
> interfaces per PHY and iperf. On the morning I'll repeat tests with
> BCM4366.

Tested on 2 units with BCM4366 (same test), lede-17.01 works fine.

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Rafał