Edgerouter X PoE passthrough

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I just flashed the latest 21.02 snapshot (r15860-a75520c678) on a brand new Edgerouter X. The wiki says to enable PoE passthrough by putting the following code into /etc/config/network:

config gpio_switch 'poe_passthrough'
        option name 'PoE Passthrough'
        option gpio_pin '480'
        option value '1'

However that did not work for me. I made sure the gpio_switch service was enabled and I rebooted but I couldn't get it to work. Adding the following to the custom startup script does work however:

echo 480 > /sys/class/gpio/export
echo out > /sys/class/gpio/gpio480/direction
echo 1 > /sys/class/gpio/gpio480/value

So I don't know if this is a bug in the snapshot version of gpio_switch, but either way it might be helpful to add the second method to the wiki just in case the first doesn't work.

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It should be /etc/config/system

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