linux-kernel - Re: stuff ready to be deleted?

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0705290807530.11140@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Tue, 29 May 2007 08:09:33 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: stuff ready to be deleted?

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So is the Kconfig entry all that is obsolete?

	Jan
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