[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH 1/4] kernel: remove obsolete phylink/SFP patches

Russell King - ARM Linux admin linux at armlinux.org.uk
Mon Nov 25 12:29:09 EST 2019


On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 06:10:18PM +0100, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Nov 2019 at 17:49, Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Remove the old phylink/SFP patches from the OpenWRT build; these will
> > be updated with a new set in subsequent.
> >
> > 450-reprobe_sfp_phy is also removed for several reasons:
> > 1) it is not in mainline.
> > 2) it breaks copper modules that do not have a PHY.
> > 3) it makes backporting the current patch set harder.
> >
> > Discussion is ongoing with the patch author for a mainline Linux kernel
> > patch for this.
> 
> You can also just put me in Cc ;P
> 
> Is using this patchset enough for the tests you asked, or are there
> some additional changes in your branch?

Hi,

Yes, for the test I've asked for.  The series basically brings OpenWRT
4.19 kernel to parity on SFP stuff with the current state of play.

Thanks.

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