[LEDE-DEV] [RFC] iproute2: update to v4.10.0

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Russell" == Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> writes:

>>>>> "Kevin" == Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> writes:
Kevin> On 20/03/17 12:35, Yousong Zhou wrote:
>>> On 19 March 2017 at 20:38, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks to Syrone Wong <wong.syrone at gmail.com> for the pointer to
>>>> UAPI fixes.  This builds now, at least on x86/geode.  It would be
>>>> nice to have some testing.
>>>> 
>>>> Signed-off-by: Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net> ---
>>> 
>>> Tested-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>> CC jogo, can we have these two patches in generic dir (271, 272)
>>> upstreamed?
>>> 
>>> Regards, yousong

Kevin> Was this tested on a 4.4 kernel?  When I tried it wouldn't
Kevin> compile (but it was a quick 5 seconds before I had to run out the
Kevin> door type test, so I could have done summit stooopid)

Russell> I tested ip-tiny on a Buffalo WZR600DHP (ar71xx):

Russell> root at hostname:/# uname -a Linux hostname 4.4.53 #0 Sun Mar 19
Russell> 12:42:50 2017 mips GNU/Linux root at hostname:/# ip -V ip utility,
Russell> iproute2-ss4.10.0-1-lede

Russell> The new ip-tiny ipk is 20k bigger than the old version (~79k vs
Russell> ~100k).  There may be some additional pruning possible to get
Russell> it back down to a similar size.

There may also be a missing depends.  I had temporary -j16 build
failures due to a missing iptables header file.  Restarting worked,
presumably because the header had by then appeared where expected.  I am
not sure what, exactly, was providing the header.

../include/xtables.h:34:29: fatal error: xtables-version.h: No such file or directory


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