Linux-Hams archive - October 1998: Re: 2.1.xx 2.1.-recent upgrade tip

Re: 2.1.xx 2.1.-recent upgrade tip

Kym Newbery (EEST)
Thu, 8 Oct 1998 19:20:07 +0930


> >I found it was needed to recompile the ax25-utils-2.1.42a if you want to
> >run ax25d with netrom on a recent 2.1.xx kernel.
> The full_ax25 sock structure has changed due to a fix in the number of
> digipeaters.

Just a general comment..... It would have been nice if the bind call did
not use C structures to pass the full_ax25 sock address... since (in my
humble understanding) C is about the only language that can be _easily_ used
to pass structures... This thought comes from spending large numbers of
hours trying to work out how to use Perl to pass a full_ax25 sock structure
to the bind call..

oh well *sigh*.. :-\

(this comment is definately not a reflect on the coders of the ax25 code..
rather just an observation)

Regards

Kym..