Release goals for 22.XX

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Hi

On 2021-10-14, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 12:12 AM Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> wrote:
> > On 10/10/21 2:44 AM, Sergey Ryazanov wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 4:40 PM Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:09, Rui Salvaterra <rsalvaterra at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > Does it make sense to directly convert this board to the upstream DSA
> > driver for the Marvell 88E6060 switch:
> > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.10.72/source/drivers/net/dsa/mv88e6060.c
> > It looks like our swconfig driver creates a bridge over all ports and
> > the DSA driver only allows communication between the individual port and
> > the CPU port.
> >
> > I do not know how much effort this is and if you have the device for
> > testing.
>
> I do not think that migration to DSA without DT support will be a
> practical step. Let's keep it as is until we are able to run new
> kernels with it.

If I'm not mistaken, CONFIG_NET_DSA_MV88E6060 has been used (for the
tl-wr941nd v2/ v3) successfully on ar71xx already, not just ath79(-tiny).

https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/ar71xx/config-4.14;h=9a524fae4316caa10431bd6b3b4dadbe8660f14c;hb=d5ae5658730a82312a20e68220f92f611b11d094#l433

and

https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=blob;f=target/linux/ar71xx/files/arch/mips/ath79/mach-tl-wr941nd.c;h=1ddeec730eab47f2e5c9e4610603f9dc04cf8746;hb=d5ae5658730a82312a20e68220f92f611b11d094#l79

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann