Someone working on kernel 5.9?

[Andrey Jr. Melnikov]

Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
> On 2020-10-29 13:11, Koen Vandeputte wrote:
> > 
> > On 29.10.20 11:37, Andrey Jr. Melnikov wrote:
> >> Koen Vandeputte <koen.vandeputte at ncentric.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 03.10.20 17:11, Vincent Wiemann wrote:
> >>>> Hi folks,
> >>>>
> >>>> is anybody working on 5.9, already?
> >>>> I'd like to do some testing with io_uring on ath79 devices,
> >>>> but the features needed require a version > 5.7.
> >>>> Please let me know!
> >>> Not yet currently as I'm pretty occupied with AI stuff, but I might give
> >>> it a try within 1 .. 2 weeks.
> >> before you start - in 5.8 kernel build process slightly changed, so openwrt
> >> "build module first, kernel last" not working, vmlinux must be build before
> >> modules now.
> >> mtd subsystem partition code massive changed - mtdsplit drivers need rewrite.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > I'll take a look at it.
> > I did encounter the mtdsplit stuff you mention.
> > 
> > Just swapped to 5.10-rc1 as it will be the next LTS.
> I have 5.9 working on the mediatek target in my staging tree:
> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/nbd.git;a=summary
For curious - for what in hack-5.9/210-darwin_scripts_include.patch defines
from dead Tilera platform? It's already moved to trash in mainline kernel.

is hack-5.9/214-spidev_h_portability.patch still need? And in kernel we have: 
# define _IOC_SIZEBITS	14