From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
tmattox@gmail.com, hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] fastroute dead code...
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:45:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040802114506.GC25951@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040730131004.2be1274d.davem@redhat.com>
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 01:10:04PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:35:15 -0400
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > It is dead code, as-is, in the kernel. It would require patches to
> > actually work at all.
> >
> > It is impossible that fastrouting is being actively used, without patches.
>
> I totally agree. And people can always resurrect it from the
> repository history or an old tarball if they wish.
>
> I think it should be killed entirely, and that's what I'm going
> to do.
The s390 people used to use it for local forwarding between partitions.
I don't know if they still do however.
-Andi
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-02 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-30 6:03 [RFC,PATCH] fastroute dead code Jeff Garzik
2004-07-30 19:29 ` Tim Mattox
2004-07-30 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-30 20:10 ` David S. Miller
2004-07-30 20:27 ` jamal
2004-07-30 21:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-02 11:45 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-07-30 20:29 ` Tim Mattox
2004-07-30 21:08 ` Jeff Garzik
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2004-07-30 20:31 Manish Lachwani
2004-07-30 21:05 ` jamal
2004-08-02 15:26 ` Kumar Gala
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