On 4/11/21 7:51 PM, Martin Blumenstingl wrote: > Hello everyone, > > you are included in this email because you have previously worked on > patches for the Lantiq SoCs upstream. > > In the past updating the kernel version for the lantiq target in > OpenWrt was an unpleasant task. > There are many out-of-tree patches and some of them are breaking with > newer kernel versions. > > To improve the situation I suggest using Rafał Miłecki's approach also > for the lantiq target: > He is submitting patches upstream, then backporting them to OpenWrt. > That way backports to the -stable tree are for free. > Other patches can simply be dropped during the next major kernel > version update (instead of having to rework them every time...). I also like this approach.
> > This approach however only works when there are active contributors upstream. > It brings the benefit of upstream code-reviews though - which in my > experience improves the quality of the resulting code. > > Therefore I would like to know who is interested in upstreaming more > patches and cleaning up some of the code which already exists > upstream? > Saying that you are not interested is fine, there is no pressure on anyone. > > > Best regards, > Martin >I have a lot of lantiq based devices (xRX200, xRX330 and xRX350) and access to a VDSL line. If anyone needs testing, I can do it. Aleksander _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel