On Fri, 06 Nov 2020 06:43:53 +0100 Martin Schiller wrote:
> On 2020-11-05 16:06, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > ...
> > Adding Martin Schiller and Andrew Hendry, plus the linux-x25 mailing
> > list to Cc. When I last looked at the wan drivers, I think I concluded
> > that this should still be kept around
On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 1:03 AM David Laight wrote:
>
> Hmmm LAPB would expect to have an X.25 level 3 and maybe ISO
> transport (class 0, 2 or 3) sat on top of it.
I actually used AF_PACKET sockets to transport data directly over LAPB
and it worked.
LAPB doesn't need anything from layer 3. I
From: Xie He
> Sent: 05 November 2020 22:47
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 12:40 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > > I think this driver never worked. Looking at the original code in
> > > Linux 2.1.31, it already has the problems I fixed in commit
> > > 8fdcabeac398.
> > >
> > > I guess when people (o
On 2020-11-05 16:06, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
...
Adding Martin Schiller and Andrew Hendry, plus the linux-x25 mailing
list to Cc. When I last looked at the wan drivers, I think I concluded
that this should still be kept around, but I do not remember why.
OTOH if it was broken for a long time, that i
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 12:40 PM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > I think this driver never worked. Looking at the original code in
> > Linux 2.1.31, it already has the problems I fixed in commit
> > 8fdcabeac398.
> >
> > I guess when people (or bots) say they "tested", they have not
> > necessarily used
From: Xie He
> Sent: 05 November 2020 19:35
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:10 AM David Laight wrote:
> >
> > > This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links.
> >
> > I don't remember any requests to run LAPB over anything other
> > than synchronous links when I was writing LAP
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 9:06 PM Xie He wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 7:07 AM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > Adding Martin Schiller and Andrew Hendry, plus the linux-x25 mailing
> > list to Cc.
>
> The linux-x25 mail list has stopped working for a long time.
>
> > When I last looked at the wan dr
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 7:07 AM Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> Adding Martin Schiller and Andrew Hendry, plus the linux-x25 mailing
> list to Cc.
The linux-x25 mail list has stopped working for a long time.
> When I last looked at the wan drivers, I think I concluded
> that this should still be kept ar
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:10 AM David Laight wrote:
>
> > This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links.
>
> I don't remember any requests to run LAPB over anything other
> than synchronous links when I was writing LAPB implementation(s)
> back in the mid 1980's.
>
> If you ne
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:34 AM Xie He wrote:
>
> This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links.
>
> I can safely say that this driver has no actual user because it was
> not working at all until:
> commit 8fdcabeac398 ("drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Fix to make it work")
>
> The c
From: Xie He
> Sent: 05 November 2020 07:35
>
> This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links.
I don't remember any requests to run LAPB over anything other
than synchronous links when I was writing LAPB implementation(s)
back in the mid 1980's.
If you need to run 'comms ov
This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links.
I can safely say that this driver has no actual user because it was
not working at all until:
commit 8fdcabeac398 ("drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Fix to make it work")
The code in its current state still has problems:
1.
The uses of
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