[LEDE-DEV] LEDE-17.01 Final Release Notes available

[Jaap Buurman]

One more question if you don't mind :) With the "mac80211 debloated
intermediate queues" do you also mean fq_codel (phase 2), or just
phase 1?
Also, has cake ever been tried instead of fq_codel to try and debloat wifi?

On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 2:46 PM, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk> wrote:
> Jaap Buurman <jaapbuurman at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thank you very much for the clarification. That makes a lot of sense.
>> Do you happen to know where the mt76 driver stands with respect to
>> these different phases? I am in the market for a new router, and due
>> to the openness of the driver I'm currently looking at a mediatek
>> based platform, namely the dir-860l rev b1.
>
> The mt76 driver also uses the mac80211 debloated intermediate queues. So
> yeah, maybe that should be mentioned in the announcement as well.
>
> As far as ath10k is concerned, the driver will use the intermediate
> queues, but only if the hardware has certain capabilities. Hence the
> wording in that bullet.
>
> The only thing that is ath9k-only is the airtime fairness patches. Which
> are not in 17.01 anyway...
>
> -Toke