From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
tmattox@gmail.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] fastroute dead code...
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:11:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <410AB967.2010202@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091219266.1029.470.camel@jzny.localdomain>
jamal wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 16:10, David S. Miller wrote:
>>I totally agree. And people can always resurrect it from the
>>repository history or an old tarball if they wish.
>
>
> Patches are needed for the driver to use that code. So its not entirely
> dead code i.e it is referenced from fastroute enabled drivers.
> Sample (really old) code found at:
> http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ftp.inr.ac.ru/ip-routing/fastroute/
Actually the opposite... the driver infrastructure is pretty much in
place. It's the core IPv4 routing code that no longer does what people
think :)
grep for RTCF_FAST in 2.4.x and then in 2.6.x...
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-30 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-30 6:03 [RFC,PATCH] fastroute dead code Jeff Garzik
2004-07-30 19:29 ` Tim Mattox
2004-07-30 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-30 20:10 ` David S. Miller
2004-07-30 20:27 ` jamal
2004-07-30 21:11 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-08-02 11:45 ` Andi Kleen
2004-07-30 20:29 ` Tim Mattox
2004-07-30 21:08 ` Jeff Garzik
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2004-07-30 20:31 Manish Lachwani
2004-07-30 21:05 ` jamal
2004-08-02 15:26 ` Kumar Gala
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