netdev - Re: [ROSE] [AX25] 6.15.10 long term stable kernel oops

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Message-ID: <80dad7a3-3ca1-4f63-9009-ef5ac9186612@free.fr>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 17:59:17 +0200
From: F6BVP <f6bvp@...e.fr>
To: David Ranch <linux-hams@...nnet.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Dan Carpenter
 <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>, linux-hams@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Dan Cross <crossd@...il.com>,
 Folkert van Heusden <folkert@...heusden.com>, Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Subject: Re: [ROSE] [AX25] 6.15.10 long term stable kernel oops

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,
> 
>>> 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