[OpenWrt-Devel] RFT: ar71xx/mac80211 update

[Outback Dingo]

curious what i missed as my archer-c7-v4 is working fine..... TPLINK
AC1750 device
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:59 AM Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
>
> 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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