linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Added needed

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Message-ID: <CAJht_EMyp5iXyGWVse7sqW0MDJ3iLH5cDcbGm1yyXt+07x9Naw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:26:32 -0700
From:   Xie He <xie.he.0141@...il.com>
To:     Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux X25 <linux-x25@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de>,
        Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Added needed_headroom and a
 skb->len check

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:50 AM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > I became interested in X.25 when I was trying different address
> > families that Linux supported. I tried AF_X25 sockets. And then I
> > tried to use the X.25 link layer directly through AF_PACKET. I believe
> > both AF_X25 sockets and AF_PACKET sockets need to work without
> > problems with X.25 drivers - lapbether and x25_asy. There is another
> > X.25 driver (hdlc_x25) in the kernel. I haven't been able to run that
> > driver. But that driver seems to be the real driver which is really
> > used, and I know Martin Schiller <ms@....tdt.de> is an active user and
> > developer of that driver.
>
> Great, sounds like we might have additional LAPB and X25 maintainers soon? :)

:)  I just want to fix any problems I see. I'll do this whenever I have time.

> MAINTAINERS lists Andrew Hendry as maintainer for X.25. Please do CC them.

OK. I'll surely do that. Thanks!