On 31/08/2021 17:42, Sander Vanheule wrote:
On Sat, 2021-08-28 at 10:24 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On 27/08/2021 06:38, Sander Vanheule wrote:
EAP235-Wall support will be included in the 21.02 release, but users who
have a v3 (or later) firmware installed, will not be able to install
those images due to OpenWrt's "0.0.0" soft-version. Eiter both patches
need to be included in 21.02, or users need to first install a snapshot
image before they can install a 21.02 release image. How would PKG_RELEASE
conflicts be avoided for backported patches?
These kind of changes are among the most useful targets for backporting
to any OpenWRT release **that actually supports the affected models**
(or along the backport of such support).
So, if 19.07 can actually support the EAP235-WALL v1, it would make
extreme sense to backport the changes to 19.07, for example. The same
for 18.06 -- in which case it would be an unofficial backport, as that
tree is EOL/closed.
What I was actually wondering about, is the PGK_RELEASE value of
tools/firmware-utils.
My patch (for master) bumps this value from 9 to 10. However, the PKG_RELEASE
in the
21.02-branch is still at 7. If the first patch was backported with a
PKG_RELEASE bump,
there would now be two different versions of firmware-utils that bear the same
PKG_RELEASE
number of 8. Maybe this was already discussed earlier, but I don't recall.
IMHO: use a second level, as in "7.1" in that case. Or "8.1" if you got
all changes that make up for PKG_RELEASE 8 (and there are still
differences -- if there are no differences, you use just "8").
The EAP235-Wall is already included in the 21.02 branch, but the firmware-utils
package
from that branch cannot build images that are compatible with the latest vendor
firmware
for this device. This will probably result in confused users.
Yeah, looks like a very worthwhile backport to me.
To come back to your point of backporting device support for this device to
19.07, that
would be non-trivial. The ramips target changed to DSA with 21.02, and a kernel
patch was
Then we don't backport it to 19.07 :-) it was just an example.
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