From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:45:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260422104522.GK651125@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel.org>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 07:18:23PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Remove the amateur radio (AX.25, NET/ROM, ROSE) protocol implementation
> and all associated hamradio device drivers from the kernel tree.
> This set of protocols has long been a huge bug/syzbot magnet,
> and since nobody stepped up to help us deal with the influx
> of the AI-generated bug reports we need to move it out of tree
> to protect our sanity.
>
> The code is moved to an out-of-tree repo:
> https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan
> if it's cleaned up and reworked there we can accept it back.
>
> Minimal stub headers are kept for include/net/ax25.h (AX25_P_IP,
> AX25_ADDR_LEN, ax25_address) and include/net/rose.h (ROSE_ADDR_LEN)
> so that the conditional integration code in arp.c and tun.c continues
> to compile and work when the out-of-tree modules are loaded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-22 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-21 2:18 [PATCH net-deletions] net: remove ax25 and amateur radio (hamradio) subsystem Jakub Kicinski
2026-04-21 6:04 ` Greg KH
2026-04-21 13:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-21 13:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-21 16:17 ` Dan Cross
2026-04-21 17:14 ` Stephen Hemminger
2026-04-21 17:47 ` Dan Cross
2026-04-22 1:56 ` Carlos Bilbao
2026-04-22 10:45 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-04-23 3:06 ` Kuniyuki Iwashima
2026-04-23 8:15 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2026-05-12 14:42 ` f6bvp
2026-05-12 14:45 ` f6bvp
2026-05-12 23:36 ` Jakub Kicinski
[not found] ` <CAFAa3YDcBsCnEJ1t+a3iHhzxW65HX+QNkZWPKHvDYp_V+UwZYQ@mail.gmail.com>
2026-05-16 1:14 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-16 10:48 ` Bernard Pidoux
2026-05-16 10:55 ` Bernard Pidoux
2026-04-23 14:11 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-04-23 14:17 ` Paolo Abeni
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2026-05-16 11:33 Bernard Pidoux F6BVP
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