From: Iain Young - G7III (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 21:28:54 EEST
Hi Ralf,
You Wrote:
> > (since the AX25 stack hasn't been touched much for a while, I
> > thought it would be easier than other subsystems, that have had
> > constant change).
>
> Definately not. The whole AX.25, NET/ROM and ROSE code is suffering from
> severe bitrot. None of the internal data structures are properly locked
> etc. I'm currently working on that.
I meant easier as in easier to merge, as there would be few patches
that have been added to the mainline, thus less rejects.
Id actually be interested in your fixes, I may be able to integrate
them into any 2.5 version of the KJD AX25 stack that I manage to
produce.
> So you may find it easy to get old code into the current kerrnel - but
> then it'll suffer from the same problems. The fact is that the AX.25
> code is looking like it was written for a 2.0 or 2.2 kernel ...
The KJD 'patch' is more like an entirely new AX25 stack - The Stack
in 2.4/2.5 currently predates it. The origional idea was to get the
KJD/FEF stack into 2.3, and thus 2.4 when it was released.
Unfortunatley Matt and Jens ran out of time, and priorties changed,
however a 2.4.x version was started by Jens, and was up to 2.4.9, but
is only a partial patch (there are a few .rej's actually in the patch).
Checkout http://www.afthd.tu-darmstadt.de/~dg1kjd/linux-ax25 for more
details, and why Jens gave it up.
All the Best
Iain.
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