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

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Message-ID: <f75c91be-9d17-7cb7-39b3-02a817aaaf7c@trinnet.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 12:04:49 -0700
From: David Ranch <linux-hams@...nnet.net>
To: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, F6BVP <f6bvp@...e.fr>
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

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