12 Aug
2014
12 Aug
'14
11:48 a.m.
On Monday 11 August 2014 22:33:31 Gui Iribarren wrote:
This will probably evolve into an option like "respect openwrt wan"
The good
things is that hardware detection module will take care of
hardware quirks while protos can be more hardware agnostic :)
I'm not entirely happy with having a package called "lime-hwd-eth1-wan"
and i'm even more puzzled with
"lime-hwd-tl-wdr3600" - are we going to
have such packages for many other boards out there?
We will have packages for boards that have specific quirks, tl-
wdr3600/4300/4310 for example doesn't associate with clients on radio0 if
there is an adhoc interface builded on top of it, this behavior has reproduced
indepentently by me, Ilario and Pau
i got wan to work on wdr3600 and wdr3500 as well,
without this module,
so i'm not entirely sure the problem you're trying to attack
It's not just wan, we need a way to work around boards specific quirks without
modifying general code that usually fix a board and break another, returning to
wan problem, the way you got wan working was not configurable, so if the user
would use it as lan instead of wan she had to edit directly /etc/config/network
and not /etc/config/lime that is not what we want...
i'm not saying the hardware-detection module is a
bad idea; instead, i
think it makes a lot of sense, but not in these particular solutions :)
that can be addressed in a more "upstream" way
well I prefer to say in a cleaner way, because openwrt doesn't offer a more
upstream way to solve them ;)
for what is worth, congratulations on running this
succesfully on
wdr3x00! if it proves useful right now, i guess we might merge it even
if it's not the ideal solution, and try to refactor the code in the future
in any case, i think this branch deserves some mumble meeting :D
I believe it deserves more than that because we need to talk on future
evolution of hardware detection, at moment it is limited to avoid specific
hardware quirks, but I was thinking in something like a capability system but
we need to talk about this, I have some doubt on doing this via mumble, i
believe we need some other talking night like in La Responsable some time ago
Cheers!