How is the mac80211 backport package generated?

[Robert Marko]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 at 16:11, Christian Marangi (Ansuel)
<ansuelsmth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Il giorno mar 1 apr 2025 alle ore 16:09 Florian Eckert <fe at dev.tdt.de>
> ha scritto:
> >
> > Hello Felix
> > Hello Community,
> >
> > I'm working on openwrt-23.05/openwrt-24.10 and want to add
> > a new Wifi7 module that doesn't work with the current stack
> > because some patches are missing. While I'm researching, I'm
> > wondering how the mac80211 package is generated.
> >
> > Until the commit[1] the backports[2] from linux were used.
> >
> > Who generates the backport package that is now on the mirror
> > server of openwrt?
> >
> > Is there a workflow for this?

Hi Florian,

It's currently manually generated, usually, Felix does it since he
bumps the backports most of the time.
The current version that backports are generated from is here:
https://github.com/nbd168/backports

There are python scripts inside that generate the final tarball.
> >
> >
>
> I remember I developed some times ago a github actions that generated
> backports package but I lost track of it...
>
> Maybe Robimarko remembers it as we had some planning on automating
> the release process?

Yeah, it's still in my fork:
https://github.com/robimarko/backports

I guess we should really restart this and move the backports into
OpenWrt org itself.

Regards,
Robert
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