From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC,PATCH] fastroute dead code... Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:11:03 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <410AB967.2010202@pobox.com> References: <20040730060348.GA22854@havoc.gtf.org> <20040730193515.GA11365@havoc.gtf.org> <20040730131004.2be1274d.davem@redhat.com> <1091219266.1029.470.camel@jzny.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "David S. Miller" , tmattox@gmail.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com, Ralf Baechle Return-path: To: hadi@cyberus.ca In-Reply-To: <1091219266.1029.470.camel@jzny.localdomain> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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