From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralf Baechle DO1GRB Subject: Re: KJD 2.3.9 patch on 2.5.29 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 02:32:37 +0200 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020802023237.B28097@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20020801194618.GA722@columbia.g7iii.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020801194618.GA722@columbia.g7iii.bogus>; from g7iii@g7iii.demon.co.uk on Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:46:18PM +0100 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Iain Young - G7III Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 08:46:18PM +0100, Iain Young - G7III wrote: > With the AX25 status on 2.5/2.6 thread, and Tomi mentioning the > KJD patch, I decided to see how much work would be involved in > porting it to 2.5 > > (since the AX25 stack hasn't been touched much for a while, I > thought it would be easier than other subsystems, that have had > constant change). Definately not. The whole AX.25, NET/ROM and ROSE code is suffering from severe bitrot. None of the internal data structures are properly locked etc. I'm currently working on that. So you may find it easy to get old code into the current kerrnel - but then it'll suffer from the same problems. The fact is that the AX.25 code is looking like it was written for a 2.0 or 2.2 kernel ... 73 de DO1GRB op Ralf -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21