[LEDE-DEV] mac80211: update request

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 03/29/2018 07:11 PM, Evgeniy Didin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Trying to add support of drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi91x driver in mac80211 we faced with problem,
> that the version of backports is quite old(2017-11-01), and at least one significant commit for rsi91x was later than this version:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-testing.git/commit/?id=e6b3b2ed3d270b3c7080c9cf7d28636dc74b0387
> Without this commit driver is not building.
> 
> Is there any possibility to update mac80211:backports version to more actual?
> 
> Best regards,
> Evgeniy Didin

Hi Evgeniy,

I think Felix does not want to update the wireless drivers before the
next release to not introduce more stability issues.
You can backport this patch by adding it to
package/kernel/mac80211/patches/ that should be fine.

Hauke