Re: stuff ready to be deleted?

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue May 29 2007 - 02:10:10 EST



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So is the Kconfig entry all that is obsolete?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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