Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6

From: Tomi Manninen OH2BNS (ivfs.xwatng@vtc.ru)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 15:16:03 EEST

  • Next message: Steven Whitehouse: "Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6"

    On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Ralf Baechle wrote:

    > No substancial changes have been done to the AX.25 kernel stack in a extended
    > period of time. As the result it is still doing crude stuff like globally
    > enabling and disabling interrupts, has no understanding of shared skb, isn't
    > fully multithreaded and probably plenty more problems I haven't spotted yet.
    > Now that we're about to remove global cli() / sti() from the kernel this
    > means the AX.25 stack will soon break entirely.
    >
    > Is there any ongoing development I'm not aware of? Just in case I've
    > started doing some cleanup last night ...

    As far as I know there is no development going on. Or if there is, people
    have hidden it pretty well. So I think everyone will warmly welcome your
    efforts! 

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Tomi Manninen           Internet:  ioopkt.spnfvbuq@setardsl.aw
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