OpenWrt 24.10 release status

[Felix Baumann]

Am 14. April 2025 12:11:14 MESZ schrieb "Chester A. Unal" <chester.a.unal at arinc9.com>:
>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.
>
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Hello Chester,

I was literally thinking about calling you Chester and then chose against it. Mistake on my part. Won't happen again.

Thanks a lot for taking a look and confirming your previous opinion on the matter.

Regards
Felix Baumann