Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6

From: Steven Whitehouse (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 15:50:45 EEST

  • Next message: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB: "Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6"

    Hi,

    >
    > Forgive if I'm missing any developments on this list; I've been (again ...)
    > unsubscribed by one of Mati's scripts ...
    >
    > 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 ...
    >
    > 73 de DO1GRB op Ralf
    >
    I started a little. Untested yet, but for what its worth:

    http://www.chygwyn.com/~steve/kpatch/ax25/ax25-uid-2.5.25.diff

    Please feel free to use as much/little as you like of this patch. It would
    be nice to do enough tidying to these protocols that we can get rid of
    things like deliver_to_old_ones() from the core code. I can't spare a
    lot of time, but I'll help where I can.

    I spoke to Dave Jones at the recent UKUUG conference and he mentioned that
    it appeared that nobody was doing any work on AX.25 and associated
    protocols which was why I started something. It would be a good idea to
    drop him a line to let him know that you are working on it,

    Steve.
    G7RRM

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