netdev - Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_NET_SCH

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Message-Id: <20080623.145231.223738833.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:52:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Cc:	bunk@...nel.org, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	rpjday@...shcourse.ca
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove CONFIG_NET_SCH_RR

From: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:31:30 -0700

> >Commit d62733c8e437fdb58325617c4b3331769ba82d70
> >([SCHED]: Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue)
> >added a NET_SCH_RR option that was unused since the code
> >went unconditionally into sch_prio.
> 
> I don't agree we should remove this option, purely for the fact that
> there isn't any way a user would know the qdisc existed without reading
> the code.

That's not how config options work.

We add features and facilities all the time that lack CONFIG
option entries.

And frankly, I plan on removing the RR scheduler in the TX
multiqueue bits I'm doing.

But even if I didn't plan this, we should remove these unused
CONFIG variables, because that is our tree wide policy.  We
don't use them as dinky knobs for documentation.

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