From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Flynn G7OCD Subject: Re: Status of AX.25 in 2.5 / 2.6 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 09:24:17 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D464D31.7090005@btinternet.com> References: <001401c2355e$2ef96750$e239832c@jrws2> <200207270637.01098.n7ipb@koster.seatcp.net> <20020728151549.A6657@dea.linux-mips.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org Ralf Baechle DO1GRB wrote: > Unfortunatley the number of race conditions in that code are > just frightening and the longer I'm hacking the code the more > I discover. Anyone examined NEWAX25 stuff to see if it is any better? I'm sure I heard someone starting to port it to 2.4. I'm happy to help on a clean-up exercise (based on the either old or new ax25 code) but it's a big job and would need a coordinated team effort. It's been done with the user-mode stuff, and I think it made a big difference to that. Maybe the same rigor applied to the kernel stuff could weed out some of the funnies that rear their heads now and then. I still get unexplained things happening and I have to brush them under the carpet when trying to woo someone into runnig Linux as their AX25 system and I'd like to be in a more confident position than that... J