Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6

From: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB (dhvprw@priceline.com)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 21:15:10 EEST

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    On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:50:45PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:

    > 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,

    I took a look at your code; it's orthogonal to what I did so far. I
    consider the removal of global cli/sti & co the most immediate problem,
    so I started redoing the whole locking in net/ax25/. Some of that stuff
    was unbelievably bad wrt. to SMP machines.

    73 de DO1GRB op Ralf 

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