On 1/7/20 12:32 PM, Adrian Schmutzler wrote: > Hi Hauke, > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-boun...@lists.openwrt.org] On >> Behalf Of Hauke Mehrtens >> Sent: Sonntag, 5. Januar 2020 14:54 >> To: m...@adrianschmutzler.de; 'OpenWrt Development List' <openwrt- >> de...@lists.openwrt.org> >> Cc: 'Koen Vandeputte' <koen.vandepu...@ncentric.com> >> Subject: Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Kernel version for OpenWrt 20.X >> >> On 1/5/20 2:43 PM, m...@adrianschmutzler.de wrote: >>>>>>> On 11/28/19 7:11 PM, Adrian Schmutzler wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi Hauke, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> The following are still on kernel 4.9: >>>>>>>>> * ar7 >>>>>>>>> * ixp4xx >>>>>>>>> * orion >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> There are patches (actually from you, May 2019) on the list which >>>>>>>> claim to bump ar7 and orion to 4.14: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/list/?series=107337 >>>>>>>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/openwrt/list/?series=107339 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I haven't looked closer, just in case you forgot about them ;-) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Nobody reported that they are working so I never applied them. I do >>>>>>> not have the hardware, I just made them compile. >>>>>> >>>>>> Since there was no response of any kind from a third party, I've >>>>>> just >>>>> marked the two patchsets as "Deferred" in the patchwork, so we get a >>>>> little more overview there. I hope that's okay for you. >>>>> >>>>> Yes fine with me, we should probably drop these targets soon. >>>>> >>>>> Hauke >>>> >>>> I think it's time to remove the three targets and kernel 4.9 support as >>>> well >>>> after the release has been made. Or does keeping kernel 4.9 in master >>>> (even >>>> without targets) make it easier to support 18.06 branch? >> >> No, it does not help me to have kernel 4.9 is master for maintaining 18.06. >> >>> I've prepared a staging branch for that (completely untested at the >>> moment): >>> >> https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/staging/adrian.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads >> /remove49 >> >> Thank you. >> >> Before applying this please send this to the public mailing list. >> >>> For orion, I have some grep matches in uboot-kirkwood and >>> kernel/linux/modules/usb.mk I'm not sure about, so I haven't touched those >>> yet. >> >> The orion part in usb.mk is also used by mvebu: >> https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/USB_EHCI_HCD_ORION.html >> >> uboot-kirkwood probably also uses some orion parts in the kirkwood target. >> >> I think kmod-crypto-iv is empty now. >> >> There are also some checks in include/netfilter.mk which can be removed now. >> >> This file can also be removed: >> package/kernel/linux/files/sysctl-tcp-bbr-k4_9.conf >> >> >> Hauke > > If we remove the targets anyway, I wonder whether we shouldn't add your two > 4.14 patchsets to master directly beforehand. > That way, we would have them in master history, where they would be easier to > find for someone wanting to use the target for whatever reason. (I'd add an > explanation of the situation to the commit message.) Still, having removed > the target afterwards, no harm would be caused by the patches being untested. > This would preserve your work there to someone looking for it, while not > affecting working master in any way and without much additional work. > > What do you think?
Sounds good. I do not think they will be added again because the hardware is very only now. Hauke
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