If openwrt had an updating feature and I was running it, do you want it to brick my device when they decide they can no longer support my router?<p>That is exactly what happened when I tried out openwrt a few years ago.  Nobody thought it was wise to say that I would need more than the 4M of flash that is in my original &quot;the linux router&quot;.  I had to use tftp to put ddwrt back on it.  That requires a wired connection.  Thank god I have plenty of those.  People today with their wireless everything would be SOL.