Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Backporting from dev branch to stable

2015-09-29 Thread Jonathan Bennett
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

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Backporting from dev branch to stable

2015-09-29 Thread L. D. Pinney
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

[OpenWrt-Devel] Backporting from dev branch to stable

2015-09-29 Thread Drasko DRASKOVIC
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: