From: Thomas Petazzoni via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: Christian Stewart <christian@aperture.us>
Cc: buildroot@buildroot.org,
Giulio Benetti <giulio.benetti@benettiengineering.com>,
Julien Olivain <ju.o@free.fr>
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH v1 1/1] package/rtl8812au-aircrack-ng: bump to version 2026-03-17
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2026 23:08:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqsFHWSuuK3Zi7Jb@windsurf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+h8R2oogx8b6yszEN14nMo0FumUSagS=aKYCDF2wLdsgFi3Sg@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
On Sat, Aug 29, 2026 at 04:26:46PM -0700, Christian Stewart via buildroot wrote:
> Drop the upstreamed Linux 6.19 build patch and refresh the Linux
> 6.15 patch against the new source.
>
> Add Linux 7.2 compatibility for the cfg80211 and PPPoE API changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Stewart <christian@aperture.us>
Patch is line-wrapped, so it cannot be applied. Can you resend with
git send-email instead?
Also, why is this tagged RFC?
> diff --git a/package/rtl8812au-aircrack-ng/0004-fix-build-with-linux-7.2.patch
> b/package/rtl8812au-aircrack-ng/0004-fix-build-with-linux-7.2.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..9f7812ee32
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/package/rtl8812au-aircrack-ng/0004-fix-build-with-linux-7.2.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,483 @@
> +From: Christian Stewart <christian@aperture.us>
> +Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0700
> +Subject: [PATCH] Fix build with Linux 7.2
> +
> +Linux 7.2 hides the PPPoE flexible array members from kernel code, passes
> +wireless_dev to key and station callbacks, adds the receive address to
> +remain_on_channel, and removes strncpy.
> +
> +Adapt the callbacks and structures while preserving the net_device used
> +by the driver internals.
> +
> +Based on compatibility changes from the related 88x2bu driver:
> +https://github.com/morrownr/88x2bu-20210702/commit/84262145aee22a33efc167adfc4535c9a3fecfac
> +https://github.com/morrownr/88x2bu-20210702/commit/cbbac61564976d607892405c7dac3dd7a8ca7622
> +
> +Upstream: N/A, based on fixes from the related 88x2bu driver
If you're doing a version bump, it means that there is a somewhat
active upstream, so patches should be submitted upstream.
Thanks!
Thomas
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2026-08-29 23:26 [Buildroot] [RFC PATCH v1 1/1] package/rtl8812au-aircrack-ng: bump to version 2026-03-17 Christian Stewart via buildroot
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