Re: KJD 2.3.9 patch on 2.5.29

From: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB (ybqpp@dayzim.com)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 21:16:01 EEST

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    On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Iain Young - G7III wrote:

    > > I'll make them available asap; I've still a huge number of loose ends to
    > > solve, hours of typing ahead ...
    >
    > Heh, I know that feeling :)

    I've fixed many of them now and I'm just trying to setup a repository
    on bkbits.net but keep running into problem

    > > Thanks for reminding me of that code again. I'd not mind taking that
    > > patch as a base to start with. However the author doesn't even claim it
    > > to be working and the patch only minimally deals with the problems that
    > > the current code is suffering from. I also had a conversation with
    > > Alan Cox (GW4PTS) who originally wrote the code. Alan wasn't fond at all
    > > of newax25 because the oldcode despite it's problem is fairly stable in
    > > practical use. So I came to the conclusion the the best thing will be if
    > > I first solve the problems of the current codebase and then later import
    > > code from the DG1KJD.
    >
    > Yeah, that is actually a good point from Alan. And there are things that
    > KJD code does that I consider 'wrong' - see my previous recent emails on
    > 'network purity'.
    >
    > I believe it also changes the interface definitions, and needs a modified
    > libax25/apps/tools.

    Yuck.

    > For what its worth, I did get quite far in getting it merged into a
    > 2.5.29 tree. Got approximatley 50% of the rejects sorted, but most of
    > the remaining ones were the soundmodem, and scc drivers.
    >
    > Unfortunatley, most of the remainder are in the core AX25 code, and
    > one reject in particular is 60K!

    I've merged the DG1KJD code into 2.4-latest without major problems. The
    bitkeeper tools have helped me alot making that easier.

    73 de DO1GRB op Ralf 

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