From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Move fib_alias out of fib_hash.c
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:08:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040930080810.GB20106@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415B3637.9060700@candelatech.com>
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:24:55PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:27:50PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> >>Because once we add functionality to the kernel we can't simply
> >>rip it out. People do use TOS routing, via static routes or
> >>similar.
> >
> >
> >I'm not so sure anybody uses it really. How about adding a printk for it
> >and seeing if anybody complains?
>
> I don't think you should remove existing features in the middle of a stable
> release cycle. If you want to have a compile option, that defaults to off,
There is no stable release cycle anymore. Linus has abolished that.
Maybe we will get it back at some point if the current way doesn't
work out, but currently it's unlimited hacking time.
> And I don't think the majority of people would see the printk untill way
> too late.
That was always the case, nothing new.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-30 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-29 4:47 Move fib_alias out of fib_hash.c David S. Miller
2004-09-29 15:20 ` Robert Olsson
2004-09-29 19:53 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 21:20 ` Steven Blake
2004-09-29 21:27 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 22:09 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-29 22:24 ` Ben Greear
2004-09-30 8:08 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-09-30 15:51 ` Ben Greear
2004-09-29 21:43 ` Robert Olsson
2004-09-29 21:30 ` Robert Olsson
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