Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6

From: Craig Small (egno.peobijpger@roskapostia.tunk.net)
Date: Sat Jul 27 2002 - 02:24:26 EEST

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

    On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:42:16PM +0200, 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 ...

    No, if there is something going on I don't know about it, which is not
    that surprising anyway. If you're doing only internal stuff than go
    right ahead. If you want to fiddle with anything that changes the API
    let me know so that the libraries and programs can handle it.

      - Craig 

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