From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] fastroute dead code... Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:45:06 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20040802114506.GC25951@wotan.suse.de> References: <20040730060348.GA22854@havoc.gtf.org> <20040730193515.GA11365@havoc.gtf.org> <20040730131004.2be1274d.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Garzik , tmattox@gmail.com, hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040730131004.2be1274d.davem@redhat.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 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 >