Hi, I am working on updating mac80211 and the wireless drivers, see https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/hauke.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/mac80211-5.6 This is currently on kernel 5.5, but 5.6 should not be a big problem.
I am not sure how we want to handle this for the next release, I see 4 options: 1. Remove using backports and use the drivers from the Linux kernel directly. 2. Take backports 5.4.X and continuously update to the latest 5.4 stable kernel releases. 3. Update backports to a version from kernel 5.6 soon and update it to new major version till we branch off and then maintain it on the stable, not long term stable, kernel version at that time. 4. Like option 3, but update at some point in time also the stable release branch version to the wireless subsystem of the next long term stable version which should be released in Q4 2020. I would tend to the last option, then we have a pretty recent wireless subsystem in our next release, but I do not know if it will be stable enough. The wireless subsystem had multiple security vulnerabilities in the last year which were fixed in the stable releases, we did not care much for the wireless subsystem shipped in 18.06, but it probably has multiple known security problems. In 19.07 the wireless subsystem is based on kerne 4.19 and I will try to update it to the most recent stable version every few months so we get bug fixes and security updates. ath11k was added in kernel 5.6, but we can probably also backport it in some way on our own. Hauke _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel