Linux kernel drops AppleTalk Networking

[NJRoadfan]

Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com

Thanks AI....

Can't say I'm surprised given the slop of AI bug reports flooding everything. Overall it seems to be driving maintainers of open source software to the point of quitting at an alarming rate. Hopefully it won't be too hard to compile out-of-tree or be replaced with something user space. Really puts a damper on work I did for Netatalk and A2SERVER.

 

[robin-fo]

Noooo!

 

[saybur]

Really disappointing to see and I'm sorry you and @slipperygrey are getting hit with this mess.

 

[pom]

in the same news, the code will be moved to github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan

Based on this, I understand it should be possible to build an external module.

Also, while looking for an alternative, I stumbled upon this project

GitHub - FeralFirmware/TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust + Tokio

A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust + Tokio - FeralFirmware/TailTalk

github.com

It aims to create a userspace implementation of AppleTalk