netdev - [iproute PATCH 1/8] doc/tc-filters.tex: Drop overly subjective paragraphs

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Date:	Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:56:17 +0100
From:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemming@...cade.com>
Cc:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Subject: [iproute PATCH 1/8] doc/tc-filters.tex: Drop overly subjective paragraphs

Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
---
 doc/tc-filters.tex | 23 ++++-------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/tc-filters.tex b/doc/tc-filters.tex
index 59127d6672ed7..54cc0c9920ce2 100644
--- a/doc/tc-filters.tex
+++ b/doc/tc-filters.tex
@@ -18,10 +18,6 @@
 \date{January 2016}
 \maketitle
 
-TC, the Traffic Control utility, has been there for a very long time - forever
-in my humble perception. It is still (and has ever been if I'm not mistaken) the
-only tool to configure QoS in Linux.
-
 Standard practice when transmitting packets over a medium which may block (due
 to congestion, e.g.) is to use a queue which temporarily holds these packets. In
 Linux, this queueing approach is where QoS happens: A Queueing Discipline
@@ -496,21 +492,10 @@ kernel itself doesn't.
 
 \section*{Conclusion}
 
-My personal impression is that although the \cmd{tc} utility is an absolute
-necessity for anyone aiming at doing QoS in Linux professionally, there are way
-too many loose ends and trip wires present in it's environment. Contributing to
-this is the fact, that much of the non-essential functionality is redundantly
-available in netfilter. Another problem which adds weight to the first one is a
-general lack of documentation. Of course, there are many HOWTOs and guides in
-the internet, but since it's often not clear how up to date these are, I prefer
-the usual resources such as man or info pages. Surely nothing one couldn't fix
-in hindsight, but quality certainly suffers if the original author of the code
-does not or can not contribute to that.
-
-All that being said, once the steep learning curve has been mastered, the
-conglomerate of (classful) qdiscs, filters and actions provides a highly
-sophisticated and flexible infrastructure to perform QoS, which plays nicely
-along with routing and firewalling setups.
+Once the steep learning curve has been mastered, the conglomerate of (classful)
+qdiscs, filters and actions provides a highly sophisticated and flexible
+infrastructure to perform QoS, which plays nicely along with routing and
+firewalling setups.
 
 
 \section*{Further Reading}
-- 
2.7.2