Guys with more experience will certainly be better suited to answer, but
from what I've observed, something like new device support wouldn't be
appropriate to backport into a released branch. Usually only critical
security patches are backported. There has been discussion of 15.05
working as a
Basically speaking ... one would take the working patch set from trunk and
apply it to CC ... fix all the errors, changes, etc.
Then once you have a working patch set for CC ... submit it.
A couple of recent examples :
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/505724/ and
Hi all,
how are the patches from main development branch backported to Chaos
Calmer branch from dev branch?
Do I have to re-post this patch-set
http://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt.git;a=commit;h=c84682a79e36bb57f4f78d51aa589f7bfe3fb5e8
against this branch: