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: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:16:01 +0200 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20020805201601.A25963@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20020801194618.GA722@columbia.g7iii.bogus> <20020802023237.B28097@dea.linux-mips.net> <20020802182854.GA503@columbia.g7iii.bogus> <20020805142824.A23501@dea.linux-mips.net> <20020805171956.GA566@columbia.g7iii.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020805171956.GA566@columbia.g7iii.bogus>; from g7iii@g7iii.demon.co.uk on Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 06:19:56PM +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 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 -- Loc. JN47BS / CQ 14 / ITU 28 / DOK A21