Radioamateur have contributed to Linux since the begining.

If a protocole should be removed from Linux kernel as soon as a commit 
breaks it, Linux itself would be t be abandonned.

AX25 is not responsible of a kernel Oops due to a commit in dev.c

Like David KI6ZHD mentionned, many hams are still experimenting using 
packet radio.

Not mentioning that a large number of pico satellites from universities 
all around the world are using AX25 for TM/TC !

Bernard Pidoux
F6BVP /AI7BG
Founder president AMSAT-France
President Dimension Parabole
http://radiotelescope-lavillette.fr


Le 01/09/2025 à 16:43, David Ranch a écrit :

Hello Eric, Everyone,

quoted

quoted

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