Added hardware support. What's next?

For Developers
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I recently added hardware support for the TPLink TL-MR3020v3. The device boots, wifi works and I can SSH into it. PR was accepted, and changes were added to the master branch by the OpenWrt developers. Excellent. Now what though?

I understand that if I want the hardware to be supported in the openwrt-18.06 branch, that I either have to ask the OpenWrt developers to backport it (assuming it applies cleanly on top of openwrt-18.06), or if that fails, open a PR against the openwrt-18.06 branch.

My question is this: Should a certain set of requirements be met first before I ask for the above / open a PR? For example: Should the hardware features work in the same way as the original manufacturer hardware? As in, this hardware has a slider switch. Should it do the same in OpenWrt as it does on manufacturer firmware?

Any help appreciated.

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On the switch, rather than the OEM function, I'd prefer it to be "enable 32 MB flash and 128 MB RAM" :wink:

Kidding aside, since I believe there have been earlier versions of the TL-MR3020 supported in both code and on the wiki and forums, my suggestion is that the switch function should be consistent with the earlier versions.

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You could ask on the openwrt-devel mailing list how to proceed.

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It is unlikely that a new device will be added to an existing stable branch. A new release is planned for Jan '19. I see no reason why it won't be included there.