> > This announces public availability of the new, rewritten AX.25
> > implementation for linux-2.3. The patch has been sent to linux-kernel
> > already, however it contained a small bug that is corrected in this
> > release.
>
> I have to say that, whilst in no way wishing to stifle innovation, we are at
> a crossroads in development of both the kernel and the ax25 utilities.
>
> Is now the time to be doing this?
I think this is as good time as any. Actually better because 2.2.x is now
"ready" and 2.3.x is there to break things again... :)
> Currently we have an incomplete set of new ax25 utilities that works only
> with 2.2.x kernels which are themselves unstable with file and other
> corruptions (eg I have an apache 1.3.6 and mod_perl config which panics the
> 2.2.10 kernel if you send it a SIGINT or SIGTERM).
2.2.x is considered production quality and at least for me it _is_ stable.
If you have found a reproducible bug then _please_ report it to the
correct people!
The utilities stuff is a completely different matter. We are rapidly
progressing with them and soon we'll have utils that work for everyone.
Matthias' efforts on making the kernel side of Linux AX.25 even better is
nothing away from the rest of us. Besides soon we will be able to tell
those people who are always mocking Linux AX.25 performance to err...
well, let's leave it there... :-)
> Should we not now be concentrating our efforts on making the 2.2.x series of
> kernels stable and complete so that they can at least do everything that the
> 2.0.x kernels can do - but better?
Well I thought it is already. Or is there something I've missed?
-- Tomi Manninen Internet: oh2bns@sral.fi OH2BNS AX.25: oh2bns@oh2rbi.fin.eu KP20ME Amprnet: oh2bns@oh2rbi.ampr.org
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