[Olsr-dev] no interfaces detected / 0.6.2 / arch: atheros

[Henning Rogge]

On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:33, Markus Kittenberger
<(spam-protected)> wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Jo-Philipp Wich <(spam-protected)> wrote:
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>> [and again to the list, sorry Bastian]
>>
>> I wonder what magic patches you're talking about?
>>
>> The two patches listed here hardly seem to be related to iface handling:
>> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/packages/net/olsrd/patches
>
>
> no but they modify the sourcecode, resulting in an hash in olsrd -v that is
> different than any of our releases, or git commits
>  -> therfore we (olsr folks) can identify such modified olsrd version, and
> usually like to consider such olsrds as "unsupported"
>
> i.e. especially i will never provide any good support for such olsrd's
> e.g. definietly no on-site debugging, or longer mails on mailing lists,..
Maybe we can help if someone points us to the specific changes he has
compared to any version in our git repository.

I introduced this stuff after we spend a week to look for a severe
memory overflow problem only to learn that the user had patched his
OLSRd and caused the problem with this (unknown) code.

Henning
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