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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Move fib_alias out of fib_hash.c
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 15:24:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <415B3637.9060700@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040929220926.GE26714@wotan.suse.de>

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 02:27:50PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

>>Because once we add functionality to the kernel we can't simply
>>rip it out.  People do use TOS routing, via static routes or
>>similar.
> 
> 
> I'm not so sure anybody uses it really. How about adding a printk for it 
> and seeing if anybody complains? 

I don't think you should remove existing features in the middle of a stable
release cycle.  If you want to have a compile option, that defaults to off,
allows some new algorithm, then that sounds more reasonable...

And I don't think the majority of people would see the printk untill way
too late.

Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-29  4:47 Move fib_alias out of fib_hash.c David S. Miller
2004-09-29 15:20 ` Robert Olsson
2004-09-29 19:53   ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 21:20     ` Steven Blake
2004-09-29 21:27       ` David S. Miller
2004-09-29 22:09         ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-29 22:24           ` Ben Greear [this message]
2004-09-30  8:08             ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-30 15:51               ` Ben Greear
2004-09-29 21:43       ` Robert Olsson
2004-09-29 21:30     ` Robert Olsson

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