LEDE-17.01 is coming

Posted Feb 13, 2017 21:08 UTC (Mon) by simcop2387 (subscriber, #101710)
Parent article: LEDE-17.01 is coming

Definitely going to be checking this out on my "spare" C7. There's some oddities with OpenWRT CC 15.05 that don't affect all users. The 5Ghz network gets split off from the lan/2.4Ghz network but only for broadcast packets. It's like isolation gets flipped on and you can't see any other machines (and they can't see you). I'm hoping the kernel upgrade fixes it.

LEDE-17.01 is coming

Posted Feb 13, 2017 21:38 UTC (Mon) by rknight (subscriber, #26792) [Link] (3 responses)

Actually LEDE-17.01-rc2 is now available https://lede-project.org/releases/17.01/notes-17.01.0-rc2

Ray

LEDE-17.01 is coming

Posted Feb 13, 2017 21:43 UTC (Mon) by simcop2387 (subscriber, #101710) [Link] (2 responses)

Yea the article mentions that, and that it's got the 4.4.47 kernel (as opposed to OWRT 15.05's 3.8.18). I'm hoping the ath10k driver has fixes (I'd be surprised if it doesn't) for the issue I described. As near as I could figure out that's where the problem lied.

LEDE-17.01 is coming

Posted Feb 16, 2017 7:57 UTC (Thu) by arnd (subscriber, #8866) [Link] (1 responses)

The wireless drivers are apparently backported from the latest kernel and updated independently from the rest of the kernel.
Not sure which exact version is in the lede-17.01-rc2, my guess is that it matches linux-4.10-rc1 plus cherry-picked bugfixes.

LEDE-17.01 is coming

Posted Feb 16, 2017 15:46 UTC (Thu) by bcopeland (subscriber, #51750) [Link]

The mac80211 makefile is here: https://github.com/lede-project/source/blob/master/packag...

That points to (as of right now): http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/compat-wireless-2017-0...

If you unpack that, the "versions" file shows that compat-wireless was generated from wt-2017-01-31-0-ge882dff19e7f. Because I happen to maintain that (but am otherwise not very involved with openwrt/lede), I know that one might find this tag in the wireless-testing tree over at http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wire....

Wireless-testing is built near-daily as simply a merge of the most recent rc or release from Linus' tree plus wireless-drivers (bugfixes in current release), wireless-drivers-next (driver changes heading to -next), mac80211 and mac80211-next (wireless subsystem updates). Gory details at https://github.com/bcopeland/wt-tools/blob/master/wt-update.

All that to say that the drivers themselves are essentially a snapshot of what's in -next for wireless at the time that compat-wireless was generated.