Acer Predator W6 with OpenWrt

I took some time, installed OpenWrt's build system, and learnt as much as I could. Recently, I submitted OpenWrt pull requests #16860 and #16861, which will improve software support for Acer Predator Connect W6/W6d and Acer Connect Vero W6m (based largely on @fer's PR #16410 and on many comments in this forum).

If you want to control Predator's the bright “mood LED area” like the six RGB antenna status LEDs from user space, or control Vero's RGB LED using the mainline linux driver, or use at tailor-made LuCI pages for your W6/W6d/W6m router, you can do so now if you are familiar with installing and using OpenWrt's build system. Please leave comments and approving reviews regarding pull requests #16860 and #16861 so that both can be merged into OpenWrt's mainline code.

With the I2C bus of W6* enabled (which is not the only, but an important improvement), I2C hardware other than the KTD2061 (in W6 and W6d at address 0x68) or the KTD2026 (in W6m at address 0x30) can be connected to the JST GH connector on the router board and controlled from userspace or via driver (if available and compiled).

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