Re: KJD 2.3.9 patch on 2.5.29

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

On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 06:19:56PM +0100, Iain Young - G7III wrote:

> > I'll make them available asap; I've still a huge number of loose ends to
> > solve, hours of typing ahead ...
> 
> Heh, I know that feeling :) 

I've fixed many of them now and I'm just trying to setup a repository
on bkbits.net but keep running into problem

> > Thanks for reminding me of that code again.  I'd not mind taking that
> > patch as a base to start with.  However the author doesn't even claim it
> > to be working and the patch only minimally deals with the problems that
> > the current code is suffering from.  I also had a conversation with
> > Alan Cox (GW4PTS) who originally wrote the code.  Alan wasn't fond at all
> > of newax25 because the oldcode despite it's problem is fairly stable in
> > practical use.  So I came to the conclusion the the best thing will be if
> > I first solve the problems of the current codebase and then later import
> > code from the DG1KJD.
> 
> Yeah, that is actually a good point from Alan. And there are things that
> KJD code does that I consider 'wrong' - see my previous recent emails on
> 'network purity'. 
> 
> I believe it also changes the interface definitions, and needs a modified
> libax25/apps/tools.

Yuck.

> For what its worth, I did get quite far in getting it merged into a
> 2.5.29 tree. Got approximatley 50% of the rejects sorted, but most of
> the remaining ones were the soundmodem, and scc drivers.
> 
> Unfortunatley, most of the remainder are in the core AX25 code, and
> one reject in particular is 60K!

I've merged the DG1KJD code into 2.4-latest without major problems.  The
bitkeeper tools have helped me alot making that easier.

73 de DO1GRB op Ralf

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