[Xastir] AX 25 networking kernel warnings --- heads up all AX.25 users Re: Error in Syslog
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Sun Feb 4 19:46:23 PST 2018
On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 11:16:41AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <xastir at trinnet.net> flavor, containing:
>
> Hey Tom, Everyone,
>
> > I would appreciate it if *everyone* on the list who uses AX.25 networking
> > routinely would test out this code --- it impacts *everyone* who uses AX.25
> > networking in Xastir.
>
> The Ax.25 stack in the Linux kernel is falling apart and there have been
> various discussions about this on the UROnode list and elsewhere. The
> situation is that other (non-AX25) Linux kernel developers have been
> making changes, updates, deprecations, etc. to keep up with general
> kernel modernization efforts but without testing any of the changes on
> the AX.25 side of things. It seems that if it compiles, it must be
> working. Not true! For various classic packet uses, 3.17.x was the
> last version before things started getting really broken.
Hmmm. It still worked for APRS with my 4.4 kernel, but then APRS is all I
use AX.25 for.
> Most of these have been reported to the "AX25 kernel maintainers" but
> those people say they *aren't* the maintainers on the kernel side.. just
> the userland side. Putting it another way, we don't have any Linux
> AX.25 maintainers anymore! Unless we can find some folk who have the
> technical chops to fix some of these issues (I wish I did), I imagine
> the native AX.25 stack in Linux will become toxic and ultimately
> removed. If there is anyone who is willing to give this a try, I can
> connect you with a few other people who have a consolidated list of
> issues and some possible fixes. Some of those fixes were previously
> rejected from the kernel maintainers for various reasons without
> offering solutions.
Sigh. Wish I had the chops for it, but I don't. It'll be sad if AX.25 dies
in the Linux kernel.
--
Tom Russo KM5VY
Tijeras, NM
echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] [n-z][a-m]
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