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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:48:48 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:57:22PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:11:50AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > +What:   Traffic Shaper (CONFIG_SHAPER)
> > +When:   July 2006
> > +Why:    obsoleted by the code in net/sched/
> > +Who:    Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de
> 
> This length of obsolete cycles is way too short -- it's not even enough 
> time for a single release of a distro to ship with the feature marked as 
> obsolete.

Do we really have to wait the three years between stable Debian releases 
for removing an obsolete driver that has always been marked as 
EXPERIMENTAL?

Please be serious.

> 		-ben

cu
Adrian

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