On 2017-04-05 07:59, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2017-04-05 02:14, Daniel Dickinson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm wondering if there is an easy way to use trunk userspace with the stable >> release's wireless (and if necessary the rest of the kernel). The reason I >> ask ask is that at this time my primary concern with doing dog-fooding with >> things I develop for LEDE is that I can end up with wireless compliance >> issues (and/or not able to use wifi due to problems, but that's a lesser >> concern since I can fall back to wired on most devices where it matters). >> I've been reassured that my contributions are still welcome, so if I can >> resolve that slight hiccup, I think LEDE is the way to go for ar71xx devices >> (otherwise just not use ar71xx). > One thing you should consider is that since we still have kernel 4.4 on > ar71xx, by switching to the in-kernel wireless stuff you will end up > adding back a sizeable amount of bugs that have been fixed in the > out-of-tree package. > What kind of wifi issues are you looking into? Maybe I can help get > those fixed. Sorry, it seems that I misunderstood your question (too early in the morning I guess). For Linux 4.4 you should be able to integrate the makefile and patches of the mac80211 package from the stable release (leave out files/ for compatibility reasons). On targets using Linux 4.9, you will have to revert the kernel as well (use the stable branch not the stable release here).
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