[PATCH master,23.05] ramips: fix ZyXEL NR7101 bricking typo

Christian Marangi ansuelsmth at gmail.com
Sun Oct 15 12:35:08 PDT 2023


On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 09:59:57PM +0200, Paul D wrote:
> On 2023-10-15 19:41, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> > A typo snuck in with the addition of Cudy M1800, changing
> > "nr7101" to "nt7101". The result is a default network config
> > for NR7101 without the only ethernet interface on the NR7101,
> > thereby soft bricking it.
> > 
> > Fixes: f6d394e9f2fd ("ramips: add support for Cudy M1800")
> > Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no>
> > ---
> > Ref https://forum.openwrt.org/t/zyxel-nr7101-not-responding-after-flashing-initramfs/174409
> > and https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/13699
> > 
> > This needs to be applied to 23.05 and master ASAP.  It is already
> > bricking devices.
> > 
> > And it would be great if we could have some automated check
> > to help us spot these kinds of unrelated and unexpected
> > changes.  I don't think the regular review process will ever
> > be able to catch this, as that is mostly focues on the newly
> > added device.
> While I second the urgency of this, I venture the question of how one might
> otherwise catch these things, but for sharp eyes. There is an attention
> deficit with respect to the volume of patches and PRs that come in.
>
>

Well the only solution is being more aggressive with nitpicking and
request very dry patch with less patch delta as possible.

The PR was introducing a new device so it's understandable to not think
that on moving code, the guy introduced a typo in rewiting the entry in
the shell...

It's both trusting the submitter and not expecting these kind of error
:(

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	Ansuel



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