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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -next] sched: remove NET_XMIT_POLICED
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 15:54:07 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 12:46:04 +0200

> sch_atm returns this when TC_ACT_SHOT classification occurs.
> 
> But all other schedulers that use tc_classify
> (htb, hfsc, drr, fq_codel ...) return NET_XMIT_SUCCESS | __BYPASS
> in this case so just do that in atm.

Yes, but it's been like this for two decades.

One of the points of my reply to the previous version of this
patch is that indeed it is explicitly returned, intentionally.