Fate of kernel 4.19

[Nick]

blocktrron helped me to fix the jffs2 error! :)
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/3536

I don't require 4.19 kernel for ath79 anymore.

On 10/14/20 1:31 PM, Nick wrote:
>> the last time I tried with IPQ40xx a 5.4 kernel the switch was not working correctly [1].
> There is a working solution to revert a specific commit. It has
> something to do with double tagging support.
> Meanwhile just a "revert" does not work anymore so I created a patchfile:
> https://gist.github.com/PolynomialDivision/171316523fcee8b512e70f93573b9434
>
> Currently, openwrt-devs are trying to support DSA and then the issue
> will not longer be present. ;)
>
>> There is this  jffs2 error on ubiquity devices [0] 
> I just flashed a litebeam ac gen2 with current openwrt dev and the jffs2
> error is still present.
> So the device is still broken with 5.4 kernel. Especially, this device
> is not contained in 19.07. :/
>
> On 10/10/20 4:14 PM, Nick wrote:
>> On 10/9/20 2:19 PM, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
>>
>>> Based on the response here, one might remove 4.19 even earlier then if nobody actually needs it anymore.
>> The 5.4 kernel breaks a lot of my devices. I still build master with
>> 4.19 kernel.
>>
>>
>> I would be happy to switch to 5.4er kernel but it makes my devices unusable.
>>
>> [0] - https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3272
>> [1] -
>> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/ipq40xx-low-performance-when-sending-traffic/74520
>>
>>
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