[Make-wifi-fast] How to efficient test ath10k driver changed on LEDE platform?

[Louie Lu]

2017-12-12 21:03 GMT+08:00 Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke at toke.dk>:
> Louie Lu <me at louie.lu> writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using TP-Link C2600 with LEDE to test ath10k driver,
>> not sure if there have a better way to make the procedure more efficient.
>>
>> This is my current workflow:
>>
>> 1. Using ath.git to make the changed I want (apply make-wifi-fast path
>> for example)
>> 2. git-patch to get the patch file
>> 3. Put the patch file into LEDE ./package/kernel/mac80211/patches/
>> 4. Build up LEDE
>> 5. scp ath10k kernel module into C2600 and reboot C2600
>> 6. Check and test with the modified driver
>>
>> I'm wondering if step 5 can reduce the reboot step, just rmmod and insmod
>> ath10k driver when it is running to save the reboot time.
>
> Yup, reinstalling the kmod-ath10k package (or just copying over the new
> .ko) and rmmod/insmod is fine. Just make sure you get all the modules
> (including all the ath* and mac80211*).
>
Great, I'll take a try with only rmmod/insmod!

>> Also, sometimes apply patch into LEDE may cause error when compiling
>> ath10k driver,
>> is there any way to specify which version of ath10k that LEDE to
>> build?
>
> LEDE backports the entire WiFi stack. So it's way newer than the rest of
> the kernel; think you can see the date it was backported in the version
> number in the Makefile.
So it is not easy to replace ath10k in LEDE to a spicific version, right?

> -Toke

Louie.