OpenWrt 21.02 status

[Nick]

+1 for finally releasing. Our wireless mesh community is testing OpenWrt 
21.02-snapshot now for months.
Only some trouble with ipq40xx soc, but we have workarounds for it.

On 8/29/21 12:53 PM, Adrian Schmutzler wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces at lists.openwrt.org]
>> On Behalf Of Hauke Mehrtens
>> Sent: Sonntag, 29. August 2021 11:54
>> To: OpenWrt Development List
>> Cc: John Crispin; Jo-Philipp Wich; Kevin 'ldir' Darbyshire-Bryant
>> Subject: Re: OpenWrt 21.02 status
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We did the 21.02-rc4, but there is still a problem with flow offloading as this
>> was not fixed. The other problems should be fixed now.
>>
>> On 7/17/21 5:45 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
>>> Currently we still have these problem:
>>>
>>> - IPv6 broken with flow offloading (according to reports, potentially
>>> related to hw flow offloading)
>>> - PPPoE allegedly broken (according to reports, not fully
>>> reproducible, likely related to hw flow offloading too)
>>>     - https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3909
>>>     - https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3835
>>
>> Some more information can be found here:
>> https://forum.openwrt.org/t/software-flow-offloading-and-conntrack-
>> timeouts/74588
>> https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3373
>> https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=3759
>>
>> It could be that this change causes the problems:
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/20180720130906.27687-
>> 3-pablo at netfilter.org/
>>
>> I do not know how much time and interest I have in debugging and fixing this
>> problem. If someone wants to have a closer look into this problem it would
>> be really nice. even when you can make it easier to reproduce it in a test
>> environment it would be nice.
>>
>> Should we just release with this as a known problem?
> Although my opinion should not be given much weight in this context, I'd also prefer a "quick" release, for about the same reasons as Hannu has given in his e-mail.
>
> As I understand it, disabling offloading will give you a working device, so it's fair enough.
>
> Best
>
> Adrian
>
>> Other than this problem I am not aware of any other critical problem.
>>
>> Hauke
>
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