AX.25, NETROM and ROSE changes in 2.6.17

AX.25, NETROM and ROSE changes in 2.6.17

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB]

For those who haven't read my recent patches I'd like to point out that
in the next kernel release, 2.6.17 the units for the AX.25 timers T1,
T2 and T3 will change to use ms for all platforms away from the
previous chaos of version, architecture, platform and configuration
dependentant chaos.  I've tried to explain things on

  http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Run_time_configurable_parameters
  http://de.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Laufzeiteinstellungen

  (1st page in English, 2nd in German)

This matters to any sysadmin that is modiyfing the values from their
defaults.

  Ralf

ax25-tools-0.0.8src.tgz

[Jose Ng Lee]

Hi,

I compiled OK a new kernel 2.6.16.14 with AX25 for my FEDORA CORE 4 and
downloaded from FTP site ftp://f6bvp.org/pub

ax25-apps-0.0.6src.tgz
ax25-tools-0.0.8src.tgz
libax25-0.0.11src.tgz

I make and installed OK ax25-apps-0.0.6src.tgz and libax25-0.0.11src.tgz.

But with ax25-tools-0.0.8src.tgz have the following ERROR on make below at
the end of the e-mail.

When I unpacked ax25-tools-0.0.8src.tgz, I see inside in the directory
ax25-tools-0.008-2.6.tgz file.  I tried tar xvfz ax25-tools-0.008-2.6.tgz
and see nothing.  What is that file?  Is that a patch and how do I apply it?

If somebody can help me. Thanks.

73s JOSE / HP2AT

[root@fedora ax25-tools-0.0.8]# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8'
Making all in ax25
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8/ax25'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
mheard.c
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o mheard  mheard.o -lax25
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
ax25d.c
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o ax25d  ax25d.o -lax25
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
axctl.c
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o axctl  axctl.o -lax25
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
axparms.c
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o axparms  axparms.o -lax25
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
axspawn.c
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o axspawn  axspawn.o -lax25 -lutil
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
beacon.c
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o beacon  beacon.o -lax25
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
bpqparms.c
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o bpqparms  bpqparms.o -lax25
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
mheardd.c
mheardd.c: In function âmainâ:
mheardd.c:272: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of âftypeâ
differ in signedness
mheardd.c:333: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
mheardd.c:339: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
mheardd.c:342: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
mheardd.c:345: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
mheardd.c:351: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
mheardd.c:354: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
mheardd.c:357: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
mheardd.c:360: warning: case label value exceeds maximum value for type
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o mheardd  mheardd.o -lax25
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
rxecho.c
gcc  -g -O2 -Wall  -o rxecho  rxecho.o -lax25
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8/ax25'
Making all in hdlcutil
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8/hdlcutil'
Making all in fl
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8/hdlcutil/fl'
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8/hdlcutil/fl'
make[3]: Entering directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8/hdlcutil'
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
sethdlc.c
sethdlc.c: In function âmainâ:
sethdlc.c:540: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of
âdisplay_packetâ differ in signedness
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -DAX25_SYSCONFDIR=\""/usr/local/etc/ax25/"\"
     -DAX25_LOCALSTATEDIR=\""/usr/local/var/ax25/"\"     -g -O2 -Wall -c
hdrvcomm.c
In file included from hdrvcomm.c:43:
/usr/include/asm/byteorder.h:6:2: warning: #warning using private kernel
header; include <endian.h> instead!
In file included from hdrvcomm.c:57:
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:354: error: syntax error before â(â token
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:354: error: syntax error before â__u32â
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:355: error: syntax error before â(â token
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:355: error: syntax error before â__u16â
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:357: error: syntax error before â(â token
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:357: error: syntax error before â__u32â
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:359: error: syntax error before â(â token
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:359: error: syntax error before â__u16â
hdrvcomm.c: In function âhdrvc_get_driver_nameâ:
hdrvcomm.c:678: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of
â__builtin_strncpyâ differ in signedness
hdrvcomm.c: In function âhdrvc_get_mode_nameâ:
hdrvcomm.c:713: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 2 of
â__builtin_strncpyâ differ in signedness
make[3]: *** [hdrvcomm.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8/hdlcutil'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8/hdlcutil'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/hp2at/linux/ax25-tools-0.0.8'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
[root@fedora ax25-tools-0.0.8]#

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Re: ax25-tools-0.0.8src.tgz

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 06:16:40PM -0500, Jose Ng Lee wrote:

(Emily Postnews recommend learning about the difference between a fresh
posting and a reply.  Your posting has nothing to do with the my you've
replied to)

> I compiled OK a new kernel 2.6.16.14 with AX25 for my FEDORA CORE 4 and
> downloaded from FTP site ftp://f6bvp.org/pub
> 
> ax25-apps-0.0.6src.tgz
> ax25-tools-0.0.8src.tgz
> libax25-0.0.11src.tgz
> 
> I make and installed OK ax25-apps-0.0.6src.tgz and libax25-0.0.11src.tgz.
> 
> But with ax25-tools-0.0.8src.tgz have the following ERROR on make below at
> the end of the e-mail.
> 
> When I unpacked ax25-tools-0.0.8src.tgz, I see inside in the directory
> ax25-tools-0.008-2.6.tgz file.  I tried tar xvfz ax25-tools-0.008-2.6.tgz
> and see nothing.  What is that file?  Is that a patch and how do I apply it?
> 
> If somebody can help me. Thanks.

I've dumped a few packages I built for FC4 into

  ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/ralf/ax25/

They used to work fine for me on FC4 but I switched to FC5 so there won't
be any FC4 updates for these packages anymore.

  Ralf

Re: AX.25, NETROM and ROSE changes in 2.6.17

[Bernard Pidoux]

Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote :
> For those who haven't read my recent patches I'd like to point out that
> in the next kernel release, 2.6.17 the units for the AX.25 timers T1,
> T2 and T3 will change to use ms for all platforms away from the
> previous chaos of version, architecture, platform and configuration
> dependentant chaos.  I've tried to explain things on
> 
>   http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Run_time_configurable_parameters
>   http://de.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Laufzeiteinstellungen
> 
>   (1st page in English, 2nd in German)
> 
> This matters to any sysadmin that is modiyfing the values from their
> defaults.
> 
>   Ralf

By the way, its a long time since I want to ask if there is any reason 
to keep the same name for different ax25.h include files.

-rw-r--r--  1 root root 4877 mar 21 01:26 /usr/include/netax25/ax25.h
[root@bernard tools]# ll /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ax25.h
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root 2752 mar 20 06:53 
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/ax25.h
[root@bernard tools]# ll /usr/src/linux/include/net/ax25.h
-rw-rw-rw-  1 root root 14842 avr 30 11:27 /usr/src/linux/include/net/ax25.h

Somehow it may be confusing.

73 de Bernard, f6bvp

http://f6bvp.org
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO-FR/

Re: AX.25, NETROM and ROSE changes in 2.6.17

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB]

On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:31:11PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:

> By the way, its a long time since I want to ask if there is any reason 
> to keep the same name for different ax25.h include files.
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4877 mar 21 01:26 /usr/include/netax25/ax25.h
> [root@bernard tools]# ll /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ax25.h
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 root root 2752 mar 20 06:53 
> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ax25.h
> [root@bernard tools]# ll /usr/src/linux/include/net/ax25.h
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 root root 14842 avr 30 11:27 /usr/src/linux/include/net/ax25.h
> 
> Somehow it may be confusing.

One for building applications, one for the kernel itself.

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

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different AX25.H files with same names

[Bernard Pidoux]

Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote :
> On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:31:11PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:
> 
>> By the way, its a long time since I want to ask if there is any reason 
>> to keep the same name for different ax25.h include files.
>>
>> /usr/include/netax25/ax25.h
>> /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ax25.h
>> /usr/src/linux/include/net/ax25.h
>>
>> Somehow it may be confusing.
> 
> One for building applications, one for the kernel itself.
> 
> 73 de DL5RB op Ralf
> 
> --
> Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21

I understand that these files have different usage.
This is why I think that they should have different names.

Here is the content of /usr/src/linux/include/linux/ax25.h
----------------
/*
  * These are the public elements of the Linux kernel AX.25 code. A similar
  * file netrom.h exists for the NET/ROM protocol.
  */

#ifndef AX25_KERNEL_H
#define AX25_KERNEL_H
----------------

So why not rename it ax25_kernel.h

73 de Bernard, f6bvp

http://f6bvp.org
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO-FR/

Re: different AX25.H files with same names

[Ralf Baechle]

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 12:11:44PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:

> Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote :
> >On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:31:11PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:
> >
> >>By the way, its a long time since I want to ask if there is any reason 
> >>to keep the same name for different ax25.h include files.
> >>
> >>/usr/include/netax25/ax25.h
> >>/usr/src/linux/include/linux/ax25.h
> >>/usr/src/linux/include/net/ax25.h
> >>
> >>Somehow it may be confusing.
> >
> >One for building applications, one for the kernel itself.
> >
> >73 de DL5RB op Ralf
> >
> >--
> >Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21
> 
> I understand that these files have different usage.
> This is why I think that they should have different names.

> So why not rename it ax25_kernel.h

I just don't see a convcingint reason for it.  If it aint broke don't
fix it.  Chances are renaming will break some software which against
good advice is using the kernel header file anyway.

  Ralf

Re: different AX25.H files with same names

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

If you really want to get confused, check out how many different versions of 
netrom.h are laying around.

/usr/include/linux/netrom.h
/usr/include/netax25/kernel_netrom.h
/usr/include/netrom/netrom.h
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/netrom.h
/usr/src/linux/include/net/netrom.h

The bottom line is you should never have the /usr/src/linux kernel includes 
in your build path if you are building applications.

Mike, W1NR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralf Baechle" <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: "Bernard Pidoux" <pidoux@ccr.jussieu.fr>
Cc: <linux-hams@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: different AX25.H files with same names


> On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 12:11:44PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:
>
>> Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote :
>> >On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 02:31:11PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:
>> >
>> >>By the way, its a long time since I want to ask if there is any reason
>> >>to keep the same name for different ax25.h include files.
>> >>
>> >>/usr/include/netax25/ax25.h
>> >>/usr/src/linux/include/linux/ax25.h
>> >>/usr/src/linux/include/net/ax25.h
>> >>
>> >>Somehow it may be confusing.
>> >
>> >One for building applications, one for the kernel itself.
>> >
>> >73 de DL5RB op Ralf
>> >
>> >--
>> >Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21
>>
>> I understand that these files have different usage.
>> This is why I think that they should have different names.
>
>> So why not rename it ax25_kernel.h
>
> I just don't see a convcingint reason for it.  If it aint broke don't
> fix it.  Chances are renaming will break some software which against
> good advice is using the kernel header file anyway.
>
>  Ralf
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Re: AX.25, NETROM and ROSE changes in 2.6.17

[Bernard Pidoux]

Ralf Baechle DL5RB wrote :

> For those who haven't read my recent patches I'd like to point out that
> in the next kernel release, 2.6.17 the units for the AX.25 timers T1,
> T2 and T3 will change to use ms for all platforms away from the
> previous chaos of version, architecture, platform and configuration
> dependentant chaos.  I've tried to explain things on
> 
>   http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Run_time_configurable_parameters
>   http://de.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Laufzeiteinstellungen
> 
>   (1st page in English, 2nd in German)
> 
> This matters to any sysadmin that is modiyfing the values from their
> defaults.
> 
>   Ralf
> -

I have just installed kernel 2.6.16.17 and patched it with your postings.
I compiled the kernel with the 1000 Hz timing option.

I wanted to compare my runtime AX25 parameters with your tables in
http://www.linux-ax25.org/wiki/Run_time_configurable_parameters

Here is what is listed when printing /proc/sys/net/ax25/ax0

  ll /proc/sys/net/ax25/ax0/
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 ax25_default_mode
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 backoff_type
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 connect_mode
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 dama_slave_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 extended_window_size
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 idle_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 ip_default_mode
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 maximum_packet_length
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 maximum_retry_count
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 protocol
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 standard_window_size
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 t1_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 t2_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 t3_timeout

It appears that dama_slave_timeout and protocol parameters are not in 
the AX25 table.

  ll /proc/sys/net/netrom/
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 default_path_quality
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 link_fails_count
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 network_ttl_initialiser
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 obsolescence_count_initialiser
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 reset
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 routing_control
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 transport_acknowledge_delay
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 transport_busy_delay
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 transport_maximum_tries
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 transport_no_activity_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 transport_requested_window_size
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 transport_timeout

reset parameter is not listed. Not ajustable ?


Here is the listing of ROSE parameters :

  ll /proc/sys/net/rose/
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 acknowledge_hold_back_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 call_request_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 clear_request_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 link_fail_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 maximum_virtual_circuits
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 no_activity_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 reset_request_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 restart_request_timeout
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 routing_control
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 window_size

Again, parameter no_activity_timeout is not in the ROSE table.

Any explanations ?

73 de Bernard, f6bvp

http://f6bvp.org
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO/
http://rose.fpac.free.fr/MINI-HOWTO-FR/

Re: AX.25, NETROM and ROSE changes in 2.6.17

[Ralf Baechle DL5RB]

On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 11:51:38PM +0200, Bernard Pidoux wrote:

> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 dama_slave_timeout
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:25 protocol
> 
> It appears that dama_slave_timeout and protocol parameters are not in 
> the AX25 table.

They are only there if CONFIG_AX25_DAMA_SLAVE has been selected.

>  ll /proc/sys/net/netrom/

> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:36 reset
> 
> reset parameter is not listed. Not ajustable ?

It's a relativly new thing, the G8ZPT-style NET/ROM circuit resets.  It's
of course ajustable, the file has "rw" set.

>  ll /proc/sys/net/rose/

> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 mai 21 23:33 no_activity_timeout
> 
> Again, parameter no_activity_timeout is not in the ROSE table.

I suppose this was just inherited from the old, less than perfect
documentation.

73 de DL5RB op Ralf

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