Update orangepi lite

[mwohlert]

[resin-jenkins]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[vicgal]

Hi @mwohlert,

Thanks for contributing! We already seem to have the 8189fs kernel module added for the orange pi lite in meta-balena-allwinner/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-mainline_%.bbappend :

` RESIN_CONFIGS_append_orange-pi-lite = "
8189fs
"

RESIN_CONFIGS[8189fs] ?= "
CONFIG_RTL8189FS=m
" ` Are you having troubles with that? Is there a particular reason why you want to use the out of tree kernel module?

Kind regards

[mwohlert]

@vicgal Ah yes I see that. I suggest for that to be removed in favor of the standalone module, which I think is easier to maintain than a huge patch like the 8189 is: https://github.com/balena-os/balena-allwinner/blob/master/layers/meta-balena-allwinner/recipes-kernel/linux/linux-mainline/armbian/wifi-add-realtek-8189fs.patch

The 8189fs driver is already an out of tree module

[vicgal]

@mwohlert, Ok, I see your point, but we don't actually maintain that patch since it's coming from Armbian. We have from them the kernel and the patches that come with it. If they update the kernel/patches, we follow through. If we were to have the OOT kernel module in our yocto layer, that would make us maintainers of the yocto recipe the least.