Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763970AbXE2IVx (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 04:21:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751476AbXE2IVq (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 04:21:46 -0400 Received: from nic.NetDirect.CA ([216.16.235.2]:44632 "EHLO rubicon.netdirect.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751175AbXE2IVp (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 May 2007 04:21:45 -0400 X-Originating-Ip: 72.143.65.211 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 04:20:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Jan Engelhardt cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: stuff ready to be deleted? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-16.8, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -15.00, INIT_RECVD_OUR_AUTH -20.00, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL 20.00) X-Net-Direct-Inc-MailScanner-From: rpjday@mindspring.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1470 Lines: 46 On Tue, 29 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 28 2007 18:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >On Mon, 28 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >> >currently, the list contains the items: > >> > > >> > * 4 Traffic policing > >> > >> CONFIG_NET_SCHED? CONFIG_NET_ACT_POLICE? Neither seems > >> marked as deprecated/obsoleted in Kconfig. > > > >the "traffic policing" entry in that list refers specifically to the > >config option "CLS_NET_POLICE" in net/sched/Kconfig: > > > >config NET_CLS_POLICE > > bool "Traffic Policing (obsolete)" > > depends on NET_CLS_ACT!=y > > > >so ... does "obsolete" really mean "obsolete"? > > Have you taken a look at the Makefile? See this oddity: > > obj-$(CONFIG_NET_ACT_POLICE) += act_police.o > obj-$(CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE) += act_police.o > > So is the Kconfig entry all that is obsolete? ah, i hadn't noticed that. how odd. now i don't know *what* to think. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/