On Mon, Sep 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM F6BVP [off-list ref] wrote:

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 !

Keep calm, I am just saying that the bisection pointed to a fine commit,
but it took a _lot_ of time to root-cause the issue.

And the bug is in ax25, not in Paolo patch.

Please test the fix, and thank me for actually working on a fix, while
I have more urgent work on my plate.

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 :

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Hello Eric, Everyone,

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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