Re: stuff ready to be deleted?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

>
> 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 So is the Kconfig entry all that is obsolete?

ah, i hadn't noticed that.  how odd.  now i don't know *what* to
think.

rday
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