From: Stephen Kitchener (tdsgsru.jmioou@remacontrol.se)
Date: Wed Oct 11 2000 - 20:37:32 EEST
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Hans Grobler wrote:
> 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).
This is probably the answer I was looking for (At least in the short
term), I hope that this will be still the case when 2.4.x is avaiable on
distributions. Lets hope so :-)
Thanks Hans.
>
> -- Hans
>
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