OpenWrt 24.10 release status

[Chester A. Unal]

Hello Felix.

On 14/04/2025 10:25, Felix Baumann wrote:
> Hello arinc9,

Please call me Chester.

> 
> sorry to bother you with this again.
> The WAX206 issue with it's Realtek WAN PHY has long been resolved but the mt7621-ramips plattform is still causing issues for users on the new release due to unstable/sometimes not working ethernet link.
> 
> matjon just put some effort into debugging this (to some degree)
> <https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/17351#issuecomment-2798953937>
> 
> And HanabishiRecca noticed that EEE somehow gets enabled even when the receiving side has it disabled.
> <https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/17351#issuecomment-2799921359>
> 
> Do their posts somehow shine a different light on the matter or do you have an idea what could be at fault?

No, it doesn't shine a different light.

> Does EEE itself work fine but gets enabled when it shouldn't be?

I can't say for certain. I don't think it matters to do so anyway, for the
issue at hand.

> 
> I know you are maintaining only the mt7530 part and not all related code so I don't expect you to change anything upstream. Though your opinion on the matter would be very valuable to us here. :)

My opinion hasn't changed. I still suspect the same thing that I stated on
the GitHub issue [1]:

> I'm going to refrain from disabling EEE for now as I see reports here
that suggest that it is not EEE that is the cause of the problem, but
rather it reveals an issue of race condition of sorts when EEE is enabled.
Perhaps the cause is in the MediaTek ethernet driver...

Get someone from MediaTek involved. I've got nothing else to add.

[1] https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/issues/17351#issuecomment-2609336415

Chester A.