From: Hans Grobler (ugw@ithink.com)
Date: Sun Oct 08 2000 - 14:53:19 EEST
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Tomi Manninen wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Stephen Kitchener wrote:
> > It has been very quiet of late on this list and with the impending release
> > of 2.4 kernels and distributions based on this kernel, I have been
> > wondering how compatible present releases of ax25 utilities are, or will
> > they still be reliant on 2.2.xx versions of the kernel.
> >
> > There was talk of some work that would change/clean up the API
> > of the various ax25 utilities. What ever happened to this, last messages
> > that I saw that were discussing this was from around May time. Unless I
> > have missed something, and for that, my apologies, nothing has changed.
>
> You probably mean the so called new AX.25 implementation and possible
> changes to the kernel API due to it. The new AX.25 is alive but not yet
> mature enough to be included in the standard kernel.
I would like to have a look at this (maybe even help if possible). What
forum is used for the development for the new AX.25 implementation? A CVS
repository?
> The AX.25 stuff in the standard kernel hasn't changed from 2.2 so the
> current utils should work with it. That said I haven't been able to verify
> that my self. I hope someone has...
I've been using a number of the current tools (libax25, ax25-tools,
ax25-apps, z8530-utils2-3.0, etc.) on 2.4.x machines and haven't had any
problems (at least not related to them).
-- Hans
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