LEDE-17.01 is coming

Posted Feb 13, 2017 21:38 UTC (Mon) by rknight (subscriber, #26792)
In reply to: LEDE-17.01 is coming by simcop2387
Parent article: LEDE-17.01 is coming

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.