alt Hacker NewsWhile I know that it may have been a security liability, I'm particularly sad that they're removing the AX.25 module from the kernel.
> 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.
This thread from the linux-hams mailing list [2] has more insight into this decision. I guess the silver lining is that, more modern protocols (in userspace), written in modern languages will become the norm for HAM radio on linux now.
[1] : <https://lwn.net/ml/all/20260421021824.1293976-1-kuba@kernel....>
[2] : <https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hams/CAEoi9W5su6bssb9hELQkfAs7...>
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varispeed • today at 4:36 PM
Oh remember playing with that protocol ages ago. Sad.
> more modern protocols (in userspace)
That's really it. The list of things that "need" to be in the kernel is shrinking steadily, and the downsides of having C code running in elevated privilege levels are increasing. None of that is about LLMs at all, except to the extent that it's a notable inflection point in a decades-scale curve.
The future, and we basically all agree, puts complexities like protocol handling and state in daemons and leaves only the hardware, process and I/O management in the kernel.
Basically, Tannenbaum was right about the design but wrong about the schedule and path to get there.