From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB Subject: Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6 Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 20:15:10 +0200 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020726201510.A28240@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20020726134216.A4126@dea.linux-mips.net> <200207261250.NAA32030@gw.chygwyn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200207261250.NAA32030@gw.chygwyn.com>; from steve@gw.chygwyn.com on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:50:45PM +0100 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Steve Whitehouse Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21