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Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Paolo Abeni , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, Yizhe Zhuang , stable , "Bernard, f6bvp" Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netrom: do some basic forms of validation on incoming frames Message-ID: References: <2026040730-untagged-groin-bbb7@gregkh> <20260409190328.GS469338@kernel.org> <20260409203235.6b9329f0@kernel.org> <2026041026-excuse-slashing-c4ee@gregkh> <20260410102827.GT469338@kernel.org> <18e3df62-34f9-4de0-903b-19919d7ae2ca@eastlink.ca> <2e0f1dca-56dc-d6e6-f4d4-1de3160e0179@trinnet.net> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2e0f1dca-56dc-d6e6-f4d4-1de3160e0179@trinnet.net> On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 09:38:25AM -0700, David Ranch wrote: > > I agree with John VE1JOT that amateur radio protocols such as AX25, NETROM, > and ROSE are still very active in the Linux kernel. This discussion makes > me wonder how the Linux kernel community judges how "active" a given feature > / driver / etc is being used in the real world before considering > deprecation. If there is an official mechanism to get metrics sent from > users back to the kernel developer community, please let us know and we'll > try to get you some one-off or periodic metrics. > We've had times where it felt like users weren't testing new kernels. regards, dan carpenter