[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] ath79: fix SUPPORTED_DEVICES for TL-MR3020

[David Bauer]

On 8/19/18 12:13 AM, Karl Palsson wrote:
> These were removed as "it was intended to be required to force
> when switching "architectures"" I disagreed then, but it got
> railed through, so it's good to see I'm not the only one who
> thought you should be able to upgrade from ar71xx to ath79 on the
> same hardware....> See also https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/1222

I understand the point of signaling people that things are most like
going to break with the target-switch. I was expecting the compatible
string to be there exactly for this reason as the compatible string for
ath79 is automatically added from the device-tree.

I'm not sure which approach is "better". On one hand, this makes
upgrading via LuCI (with settings not preserved) not possible. I would
expect people to read release nodes and follow the path accordingly, on
the other hand you could argue one who is reading release notes is also
capable of upgrading via CLI/SSH.

Middle ground would be (in my opinion) to allow forced sysupgrade via
LuCI, but I'm not sure how much effort this would be.

Best wishes
David

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