[PATCH 22.03] mvebu: cortexa9: disable devices using broken mv88e6176 switch

Uwe Kleine-König uwe+openwrt at kleine-koenig.org
Thu Dec 1 03:17:31 PST 2022


On 12/1/22 10:52, Petr Štetiar wrote:
> Several users have reported, that devices using mv88e6176 switch are
> seriously broken, basically turning that switch into a hub. Until fixed
> those devices should be disabled.
> 
> I've used TOH with "Switch 88E6176" filter, which provided me with the
> following list of likely affected devices:
> 
>   * Linksys WRT1200AC v1/v2, WRT1900AC v1/v2
>   * SolidRun ClearFog Pro
>   * Turris Omnia
> 
> That device list more or less corresponds with the list of devices
> mentioned in the linked bug reports.
> 
> References: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/11077
> Signed-off-by: Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz>

I wonder if disabling is a sane thing to do here. People running 22.03.2 
won't be able to update (without building themselves). Isn't that worse 
than a slow network configuration?

Best regards
Uwe
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