R: R: Someone working on kernel 5.9?

ansuelsmth at gmail.com ansuelsmth at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 16:45:07 EST 2020


> ansuelsmth at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > If you want I can port 5.9 to ipq806x and check if there is any
> > > > problem. That way it will be ready when 5.10 is released (i think
> > > > minimal change from 5.9 to 5.10)
> > > tsense patches not apply, ar8216 driver need small fix:
> > >
> 
> > I think that with 5.10 we will be able to switch to qca8k dsa (and trash
> > the ar8216 driver).
> Why we can't do this now?
> 

We already can... to switch and use dsa we just need to update entries in
the
dts.

> > About tsense I'm still waiting a kernel guy to review my patches to add
> > support upstream, I would delay as much as we can the porting of tsens
> > patch hoping that the upstream patch gets accepted before official 5.10
> > support from openwrt.
> Heh. 5.10-rc1 is already out, no new features is allowed to merge.
> Maybe in 5.11 or 5.12 you see your patches in kernel.
> 

Since the entire tsense driver is a big patch that adds source file, it will
be better
to backport the new driver from upstream to 5.10 instead of adapt the old
patch.
At worst we can just use the proposed patch that already works and is a lot
cleaner
Than what we have now.




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