Re: [PATCH net] drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Added needed_headroom and a skb->len check

From: Xie He
Date: Tue Aug 11 2020 - 22:26:46 EST


On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:50 AM Willem de Bruijn
<willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I became interested in X.25 when I was trying different address
> > families that Linux supported. I tried AF_X25 sockets. And then I
> > tried to use the X.25 link layer directly through AF_PACKET. I believe
> > both AF_X25 sockets and AF_PACKET sockets need to work without
> > problems with X.25 drivers - lapbether and x25_asy. There is another
> > X.25 driver (hdlc_x25) in the kernel. I haven't been able to run that
> > driver. But that driver seems to be the real driver which is really
> > used, and I know Martin Schiller <ms@xxxxxxxxxx> is an active user and
> > developer of that driver.
>
> Great, sounds like we might have additional LAPB and X25 maintainers soon? :)

:) I just want to fix any problems I see. I'll do this whenever I have time.

> MAINTAINERS lists Andrew Hendry as maintainer for X.25. Please do CC them.

OK. I'll surely do that. Thanks!