[OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

[John Crispin]

On 22/08/18 10:40, Koen Vandeputte wrote:
>
>
> On 2018-08-13 17:14, John Crispin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> as 19.01 will probably use v4.14 as baseline and ath79 wont be a full 
>> replacement for ar71xx by then we decided to bump ar71xx to v4.14. 
>> This is available for testing inside my staging tree ->
>>
>> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/blogic.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/staging 
>>
>>
>> The tree also holds an update to mac80211, bumping it to the v4.18 
>> wifi drivers. If anyone would like to test ar71xx and/or mac80211, 
>> feel free to do so.
>>
>>     John
>>
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>
> Hi John,
>
> Thanks for the updates!
>
>
> mac80211:
>
>
> I've tested mac80211 on a large number of targets in the field:
>
> - ~25 devices
> - half of them having up to 4 wlan ifaces
> - all running in IBSS
> - Distance varying from 20m up to ~50km
>
> For my cases, it seems to work well.
>
>
> Small nit-pick:
> In the bootlog, I'm seeing this:
>
> [   11.330000] Loading modules backported from Linux version 
> v4.18-rc7-0-gacb1872577b3
> [   11.330000] Backport generated by backports.git 
> v4.14-rc2-1-71-g39f4ec76
>
>
> Is the 2nd line correct?

erm no, i'll rebase ontop of v4.18 (without RC) the next days and look 
into this. its most likely the last version that backports.git was 
tested against and i bumped the s/patch set to v4.18

thanks for testing !
     John



>
>
>
> ar71xx:
>
> I'm now currently testing your ar71xx 4.14 bump (comitted today in 
> master) on a few different targets:
>
> - Gl-mifi
> - Rocket-m5
> - RB912
> - RB2011
> ...
>
> Will let you know the results.
>
>
> Koen
>
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