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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] remove obsolete shaper code
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:01:33 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:58:54 -0700

> This driver is obsolete, and fixing it for adding upcoming changes
> to make hard_header_ops
> is problematic because it changes the underlying device handles.
> 
> The driver has been superseded by iproute2/traffic control for
> a long time. Let's kill it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

Please do this with a proper feature-removal-schedule.txt entry and
timeframe.