On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Joerg Reuter wrote:
> > I do intend to do some tweaking of this interface in the future to make
> > (for example) /proc/sys/net/ax25/ax1.parms 11th parameter into
> > /proc/sys/net/ax25/ax1/idle_timeout or something similar, and so on.=20
>
> Remember me suggesting this? And remember that I wrote that it
> would be unlikely that I would do it? Well, never say never... ;-)
I had thought about it from time to time since but never done anything
towards it.
> The attached patch is not very well tested yet (kernel 2.1.25
Thats what users are for :-)
> I removed AX25_VALUES_TEXT and included it in CONNECT_MODE:
>
> 0 - no connects allowed
> 1 - connects allowed, ignore I frames with textmode PID
> 2 - connects allowed, allow I frames with textmode PID (default)
>
> On the other hand: do we really need this? If we do not have any listener
> set up for incoming AX.25 calls we discard PID F0 anyway.
I'm not sure we do need it to be honest. I will integrate it into
ax25-module-11 and the next 2.1.x too. I will change some of the names if
you don't mind, but not seriously different.
> The only other change is that the AX25_VALUES_* and the AX25_STATE_*
> #defines are "enums" now.
Fair enough. I'll probably go through other protocols and do a similar
clean up.
> The patch is attached below, for the sake of non-MIME-capable readers
> UUcoded...
>
> 73 de J=F6rg
This patch is very much appreciated.
Jonathan
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