From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.toke.dk (mail.toke.dk [45.145.95.4]) (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 4B7E5366558; Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.145.95.4 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776932161; cv=none; b=QKtIY2qkZybCUJWXWNFNpTKgVc9S+Mb6H9ccjnTohDfsATw+xWtPm2awHmc7IaUEuOvpUTTNcwjLvRB2GnicXxFJ9uyiCOKMPKG9Lx58cGZ7UMnSxALkvWDtE4TzLyg9bQHbpmKUeitPsyMqMh99crJOa5XMJ7eoHyIHumTRbt0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776932161; c=relaxed/simple; bh=jWJJzG3JuyMUWdXtBQZSANLEqwCYgNxCmN5cswBpNEA=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=jUag4PM1HPO0MojkgBLjaKNAwGS6RsFCZ0Xo3IOgfdT3XhBgwJqn+OCukMUdUCF6mji9XJCxxSPMea4hR1mlEfKesvjnnHTUOLfSg03oRwGsroXinGapYjn/UUvgI9j8yLB3IJe7Gj18bNqKCEAGcnhujpJev9igpnieOiGwg7g= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=toke.dk; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=toke.dk; arc=none smtp.client-ip=45.145.95.4 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=reject dis=none) header.from=toke.dk Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=toke.dk From: Toke =?utf-8?Q?H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen?= Authentication-Results: mail.toke.dk; dkim=none To: Jakub Kicinski , davem@davemloft.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski , 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, 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 In-Reply-To: <20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org> References: <20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org> Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:15:48 +0200 X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Message-ID: <87se8mytvv.fsf@toke.dk> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jakub Kicinski writes: > 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 Acked-by: Toke H=C3=B8iland-J=C3=B8rgensen