From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E1CB3BF67A; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776854736; cv=none; b=Lwzfnh2hqBaREHemN62p+57Ap9aBU4hGXRHfy9V0ZL/HjO/nXgow+qV/hBU+YG09P6AUfgwGVME4gUblfDvTKFl0NNKA3DVbwPScb4S7eUViqwr5l2ny4FIy6qPcohqWyACFIl+ZZH+T9kkNa92m3KcwbhDTvPhTSFkfP3qayk4= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776854736; c=relaxed/simple; bh=TpfNQlTkSNL7BzUK+Pd9K+KxRlrlEHZM5h0NyDeSYWQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=KQ4twTkSPfcFUS6b1fhCR8KPzYiAq+wtzBkdLYopemJ7i2U0uTwXPAPxrXVBs7v+say2+SKg3DPhRCWs2ZoTDFLIuZIr1tKoruQjQntLfrye3sClOMizyqMk2ASnchQD037CDHfKmAx2VXCaUskPmmKaZIX3GYCh6kEC59cS/Fg= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=f6bKDgI9; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="f6bKDgI9" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7891FC19425; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:45:26 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1776854736; bh=TpfNQlTkSNL7BzUK+Pd9K+KxRlrlEHZM5h0NyDeSYWQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=f6bKDgI9RhEZIh7+hobdoxWlVq1gHUaQyXR4m+1d0/IMupVsD0m/usRRM6n2xHp7w LH52RTuZgV1klLheUCo5ynp4FP35Zj2EpxRVJQAfRpTDi6myG7w3JNn51MqTLFPfnh wdac20g8lTLSUjPxwCmZD7CQtRijt3WcBBiETSDJE4f41maAgeucEBT1IFzjLcQr6x KeIgEayOFRii/pXgvj2J3i3jcx9/lrZYwLlqo/03Lp+YKKbwfxyUkgJHA6/eCQ1fD5 849kcCG7giSQotmykPgpASc+/lfbQNCloBaFITkZI0pmIu1agXk7hFNzKZLNhjSrkd DReCWtzjFLzJQ== Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:45:22 +0100 From: Simon Horman To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, corbet@lwn.net, skhan@linuxfoundation.org, federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it, carlos.bilbao@kernel.org, avadhut.naik@amd.com, alexs@kernel.org, si.yanteng@linux.dev, dzm91@hust.edu.cn, 2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn, tsbogend@alpha.franken.de, dsahern@kernel.org, jani.nikula@intel.com, mchehab+huawei@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jirislaby@kernel.org, tytso@mit.edu, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, ebiggers@kernel.org, johannes.berg@intel.com, geert@linux-m68k.org, pablo@netfilter.org, tglx@kernel.org, mashiro.chen@mailbox.org, mingo@kernel.org, dqfext@gmail.com, jreuter@yaina.de, sdf@fomichev.me, pkshih@realtek.com, enelsonmoore@gmail.com, mkl@pengutronix.de, toke@toke.dk, kees@kernel.org, crossd@gmail.com, jlayton@kernel.org, wangliang74@huawei.com, aha310510@gmail.com, takamitz@amazon.co.jp, kuniyu@google.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem Message-ID: <20260422104522.GK651125@horms.kernel.org> References: <20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@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: <20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org> On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 07:18:23PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski 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. > > Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP, > AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN) > so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues > to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded. > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Reviewed-by: Simon Horman