R: R: Someone working on kernel 5.9?

[Andrey Jr. Melnikov]

ansuelsmth at gmail.com wrote:
> > ansuelsmth at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > If you want I can port 5.9 to ipq806x and check if there is any
> > > > > problem. That way it will be ready when 5.10 is released (i think
> > > > > minimal change from 5.9 to 5.10)
> > > > tsense patches not apply, ar8216 driver need small fix:
> > > >
> > 
> > > I think that with 5.10 we will be able to switch to qca8k dsa (and trash
> > > the ar8216 driver).
> > Why we can't do this now?

> We already can... to switch and use dsa we just need to update entries in
> the dts.

> > > About tsense I'm still waiting a kernel guy to review my patches to add
> > > support upstream, I would delay as much as we can the porting of tsens
> > > patch hoping that the upstream patch gets accepted before official 5.10
> > > support from openwrt.
> > Heh. 5.10-rc1 is already out, no new features is allowed to merge.
> > Maybe in 5.11 or 5.12 you see your patches in kernel.
> > 

> Since the entire tsense driver is a big patch that adds source file, it will be better
> to backport the new driver from upstream to 5.10 instead of adapt the old patch.
> At worst we can just use the proposed patch that already works and is a lot cleaner
> Than what we have now.
This series https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pm/20200814134123.14566-1-ansuelsmth@gmail.com/
is enough for replace ipq806x/patches/0063-* ? Or need backport something else?