From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DF12175A6D; Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:04:08 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776751449; cv=none; b=hs5CDcmtIxsYSI8K6vOOmUEwg3Ae4XPjBZkokGc0FzvBuvvwMbr31yYTycwptJ/OPRfNjGwNG/60JGri2B6SEBbI4uN+g7L7Kgwiv/d0V8sBXqgYrSdTwUMHUX21l0NiyfbqM6WRDVEBIKlygaVb6NIyX1UWji0gVrHgiFYxp9E= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776751449; c=relaxed/simple; bh=TI8LZTYV/KmCG1OsPote9A8sOaawJsYT4yYstMBFTCU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=Ecb0K45IzfjlyMUC+3yLC2C+TqVEL7rIn5b0CCC8os1W7VnxsSvj+MFhDTSJiej3/cSMbK52e1noJbhgh9OQN0M7wI90uCnk96uhCljegByN6XzqTRE+VsJP/BcuYhhpTJVEBHNzucJVdjE558OcpONlkzY4IqnWVTmaMiVfKAE= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=KKzkWbc5; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="KKzkWbc5" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 44F9EC2BCB0; Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:04:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1776751448; bh=TI8LZTYV/KmCG1OsPote9A8sOaawJsYT4yYstMBFTCU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=KKzkWbc5zL/8yJTVCXh7VfQ7nS4igOr4WOal5jSjMRc7iDCFJnXy1sx4DEDi87qrO Uds4IM6Kdw6qdCwQfTyE4PIAKBUg1FbOOP/M+YgxW77CFjMqJmcMtcaDTgL8iwj6pa 77JJvJeqH8avcFa+tFt2RU/Fbs63lE2txcpQPIAY= Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:04:06 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it, carlos.bilbao@kernel.org, avadhut.naik@amd.com, alexs@kernel.org, si.yanteng@linux.dev, dzm91@hust.edu.cn, 2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, dsahern@kernel.org, jani.nikula@intel.com, mchehab+huawei@kernel.org, jirislaby@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, ebiggers@kernel.org, johannes.berg@intel.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, pablo@netfilter.org, tglx@kernel.org, mashiro.chen@mailbox.org, mingo@kernel.org, dqfext@gmail.com, jreuter@yaina.de, sdf@fomichev.me, pkshih@realtek.com, enelsonmoore@gmail.com, mkl@pengutronix.de, toke@toke.dk, kees@kernel.org, crossd@gmail.com, jlayton@kernel.org, wangliang74@huawei.com, aha310510@gmail.com, takamitz@amazon.co.jp, kuniyu@google.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem Message-ID: <2026042158-upward-obsessive-0c8f@gregkh> References: <20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org> On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 07:18:23PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote: > Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation > and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree. > This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet, > and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx > of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree > to protect our sanity. > > The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo: > https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan > if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back. > > Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP, > AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN) > so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues > to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded. > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman