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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:55:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260421065507.2c5e3ba7@phoenix.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org>

On Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:18:23 -0700
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:

> Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
> and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
> This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet,
> and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx
> of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree
> to protect our sanity.
> 
> The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo:
> https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
> if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.


It would be good if these protocols could be done in userspace
or with BPF?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-21 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-21  2:18 [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-21  6:04 ` Greg KH
2026-04-21 13:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-21 13:55 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2026-04-21 16:17   ` Dan Cross
2026-04-21 17:14     ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-21 17:47       ` Dan Cross

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