From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8yvind=20Hanssen?= Subject: AX.25 kernel module development Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 14:36:15 +0200 Sender: linux-hams-owner@localhost Message-ID: <200304081436.15919.oyvind@cs.uit.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Please excuse me if this has been discussed before..=20 There are some talk here about that the AX.25 Linux kernel code is brok= en.=20 There has been attempts to create patches for the kernel; some are good= but arent (yet) included in the mainstream kernel, and there has been a ser= ious=20 attempt to rewrite the kernel stack as well (?) And it seems to be some= =20 uncertainty wrt. what is happening in Linux 2.5 (?) It seem complicated to maintain patches for the Linux kernel the=20 way it has been done, and I notice that someone has even suggested to=20 implement the whole thing in userspace instead, at least to make it eas= ier to develop new protocols and drivers...=20 What about keeping the core AX.25 stuff and drivers in kernel but split= it out from the mainstream Linux codebase and do the development in a sepa= rate project instead; like e.g. the ALSA project has done until now? I guess= =20 that it would be easier to compile, maintain and add features to such=20 a package than getting patches accepted for the mainstream Linux kernel= =2E=20 It is possible that a small part must remain in the kernel (socket API?= ), but we shouldnt need to change this part too often.=20 73 de LA7ECA, =D8yvind - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hams" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html