commit b82057d9ec851a8aba8a295b959190ef5098f330
Author: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Date:   Sat Dec 21 17:00:11 2013 -0500

    After a decade of trying to deprecate the old policer syntax,
    I believe it is time to kill it. The kernel build option for old
    policer is gone for at least 5 years now (although backward
    compatibility is still there). Being backward compatible meant
    hijacking the keyword "action" and was obstructing policies like:
    
    tc filter add dev eth0 parent ffff: protocol ip pref 10 \
    u32 match ip protocol 1 0xff flowid 1:10 \
    action skbedit mark 1 \
    action police rate 10kbit burst 10k pipe \
    action skbedit mark 2 \
    action police rate 20kbit burst 20k pipe \
    action action mirred egress mirror dev dummy0
    
    Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>

diff --git a/tc/m_police.c b/tc/m_police.c
index 300287e..df295e0 100644
--- a/tc/m_police.c
+++ b/tc/m_police.c
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ static void usage(void)
 	fprintf(stderr, "                [ peakrate BPS ] [ avrate BPS ] [ overhead BYTES ]\n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "                [ linklayer TYPE ] [ ACTIONTERM ]\n");
 
-	fprintf(stderr, "Old Syntax ACTIONTERM := action <EXCEEDACT>[/NOTEXCEEDACT] \n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "New Syntax ACTIONTERM := conform-exceed <EXCEEDACT>[/NOTEXCEEDACT] \n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "Where: *EXCEEDACT := pipe | ok | reclassify | drop | continue \n");
 	fprintf(stderr, "Where:  pipe is only valid for new syntax \n");
@@ -150,6 +149,7 @@ int act_parse_police(struct action_util *a,int *argc_p, char ***argv_p, int tca_
 
 	while (argc > 0) {
 
+		fprintf(stderr,"police argc %d argv %s\n", argc, *argv);
 		if (matches(*argv, "index") == 0) {
 			NEXT_ARG();
 			if (get_u32(&p.index, *argv, 10)) {
@@ -230,8 +230,7 @@ int act_parse_police(struct action_util *a,int *argc_p, char ***argv_p, int tca_
 			p.action = TC_POLICE_OK;
 		} else if (matches(*argv, "pipe") == 0) {
 			p.action = TC_POLICE_PIPE;
-		} else if (strcmp(*argv, "action") == 0 ||
-			   strcmp(*argv, "conform-exceed") == 0) {
+		} else if (strcmp(*argv, "conform-exceed") == 0) {
 			NEXT_ARG();
 			if (get_police_result(&p.action, &presult, *argv)) {
 				fprintf(stderr, "Illegal \"action\"\n");