[OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

[Daniel Golle]

Hi John,

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:43:18AM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> 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.
> > ...
> > 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.

I rebased my staging tree on top of yours and tested a bunch of ramips
devices and noticed that kmod-rt2x00-lib is marked @BROKEN. Removing
the broken mark resulted in pretty well working rt2x00 drivers, tested
on MT7620A and doing the job as well as with previous mac80211
versions.

Hence:
diff --git a/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile b/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile
index 61cb27b5dd..70a268c535 100644
--- a/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile
+++ b/package/kernel/mac80211/Makefile
@@ -1238,7 +1238,7 @@ endef
 
 define KernelPackage/rt2x00-lib
 $(call KernelPackage/rt2x00/Default)
-  DEPENDS+= @BROKEN @(PCI_SUPPORT||USB_SUPPORT||TARGET_ramips) +kmod-mac80211 +kmod-lib-crc-itu-t
+  DEPENDS+= @(PCI_SUPPORT||USB_SUPPORT||TARGET_ramips) +kmod-mac80211 +kmod-lib-crc-itu-t
   TITLE+= (LIB)
   FILES:=$(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/drivers/net/wireless/ralink/rt2x00/rt2x00lib.ko
   MENU:=1


Cheers


Daniel

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