How is the mac80211 backport package generated?

[Christian Marangi (Ansuel)]

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?
>
>

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?