Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6

[Ralf Baechle DO1GRB <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:50:45PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:

> I started a little. Untested yet, but for what its worth:
> 
> http://www.chygwyn.com/~steve/kpatch/ax25/ax25-uid-2.5.25.diff
> 
> Please feel free to use as much/little as you like of this patch. It would
> be nice to do enough tidying to these protocols that we can get rid of
> things like deliver_to_old_ones() from the core code. I can't spare a
> lot of time, but I'll help where I can.
> 
> I spoke to Dave Jones at the recent UKUUG conference and he mentioned that
> it appeared that nobody was doing any work on AX.25 and associated
> protocols which was why I started something. It would be a good idea to
> drop him a line to let him know that you are working on it,

I took a look at your code; it's orthogonal to what I did so far.  I
consider the removal of global cli/sti & co the most immediate problem,
so I started redoing the whole locking in net/ax25/.  Some of that stuff
was unbelievably bad wrt. to SMP machines.

73 de DO1GRB op Ralf

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