Hey Chris,
Well if the cause is/was bad patches, I am wondering
if a frankenstein
kernel would work with the old AX.25 code "grafted in" to the new
kernel. I am wondering what kind of mess that would make. Not a kernel
programmer, so I am not sure what all would be involved. I think
compiling an old slackware distro for a R-Pi 3 would be interesting too.
If you read the
linux-ham@... archives (
), you can see how various patches have been submitted and accepted
in w/o any testing or validation.? These patches have been "fixing"
potential race conditions found by automated tools, security issues,
and also changing out various legacy kernel data structures for new
ones.? What that has created is a moving target where we cannot just
backout the changes as the AX.25 and surrounding kernel code has
moved forward and is now incompatible.? <sigh>
--David
KI6ZHD
