From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
To: David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] make sch_fifo.o available when CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 00:24:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031232400.GE12964@postel.suug.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061031165324.GA20271@devicescape.com>
* David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com> 2006-10-31 08:53
> You may see this discussion for more info:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116181395100002&r=1&w=2
>
> ----
> Based on a patch by Patrick McHardy.
>
> Add a new option, NET_SCH_FIFO, which provides a simple fifo qdisc
> without requiring CONFIG_NET_SCHED.
>
> The d80211 stack needs a generic fifo qdisc for WME. At present it
> uses net/d80211/fifo_qdisc.c which is functionally equivalent to
> sch_fifo.c. This patch will allow the d80211 stack to remove
> net/d80211/fifo_qdisc.c and use sch_fifo.c instead.
I think NET_SCH_FIFO doesn't need a help text, should be invisible
to the user. Just select it from NET_SCHED and d80211.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-31 23:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-31 16:53 [patch] make sch_fifo.o available when CONFIG_NET_SCHED is not set David Kimdon
2006-10-31 23:24 ` Thomas Graf [this message]
2006-11-08 14:06 ` David Kimdon
2006-11-10 0:17 ` David Miller
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