From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from trinity3.trinnet.net (trinity.trinnet.net [96.78.144.185]) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1115222F77E; Mon, 1 Sep 2025 19:05:21 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=96.78.144.185 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1756753524; cv=none; b=FwruxXniRPLbeOegX4stezjEsSKNn5atVoTy/fy+sNd/SemUtUTdfvKdeJZtXOIpnOhC1E2Pk8Uo0ZwwyzvMkSALYFylYFoJPGz1soJj0DnJORQPnVB5Rbj4v1DHBVnga2TNt+/rpqmM5azGgytDqz0nqdB68ntjQ+VnB2eIKSo= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1756753524; c=relaxed/simple; bh=muqd/SyuO3uY4Nf5+DN+wt0saTbYhOC5bkfEx3tWYQI=; h=From:Subject:To:References:Cc:Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version: In-Reply-To:Content-Type; b=o4P4wm4lLfbnFJNU6nHQMubViUjQk0TogtehjLedC+2O9BizRXsc479KdiuD3ZhBkAZ4Vc1G2xo8khgoOggfnZyVCZQUagnyPnC1ocdDoYnC0vXhk6x4+8aWTe1rwbHudAgk+ebl/Cf6Jp4qTlRf/azI/pmaq4hTNHLMAcYVG4A= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=trinnet.net; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=trinnet.net; arc=none smtp.client-ip=96.78.144.185 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=trinnet.net Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=trinnet.net Received: from trinity4.trinnet.net (trinity4.trinnet.net [192.168.0.11]) by trinity3.trinnet.net (TrinityOS hardened/TrinityOS Hardened) with ESMTP id 581J4npA004262; Mon, 1 Sep 2025 12:04:49 -0700 From: David Ranch Subject: Re: [ROSE] [AX25] 6.15.10 long term stable kernel oops To: Eric Dumazet , F6BVP References: <11212ddf-bf32-4b11-afee-e234cdee5938@free.fr> <4e4c9952-e445-41af-8942-e2f1c24a0586@free.fr> <90efee88-b9dc-4f87-86f2-6ab60701c39f@free.fr> <6c525868-3e72-4baf-8df4-a1e5982ef783@free.fr> <6a5cf9cf-9984-4e1b-882f-b9b427d3c096@free.fr> <0c694353-2904-40c2-bf65-181fe4841ea0@free.fr> <4542b595-2398-4219-b643-4eda70a487f3@free.fr> <1713f383-c538-4918-bc64-13b3288cd542@free.fr> Cc: Paolo Abeni , Dan Carpenter , linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, netdev , Dan Cross , Folkert van Heusden , Florian Westphal Message-ID: Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 12:04:49 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (trinity3.trinnet.net [192.168.0.1]); Mon, 01 Sep 2025 12:04:51 -0700 (PDT) Hello Eric, Everyone, >> At some point we will have to remove ax25, this has been quite broken >> for a long time. I can appreciate that the code implementing AX.25 in the kernel is very old but say it needs to be removed will impact a lot of people. There is a very active community around AX.25 packet radio today and Linux's native implementation still offers features and functions that aren't implemented anywhere else. There are also some large / popular projects that are dependent on it for their connectivity via libax25, etc. I continue to hope someone will be willing to step forward and write a modernized version of this stack (and netrom and rose too) so we can continue to run things natively on Linux. --David KI6ZHD