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| author | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-06-10 17:22:39 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-07-10 22:05:57 -0700 |
| commit | e06e7c615877026544ad7f8b309d1a3706410383 (patch) | |
| tree | eb087b49279e6db492039a5d684ca9acb13265a3 /Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | |
| parent | 4eb6bf6bfb580afaf1e1a1d30cba17a078530cf4 (diff) | |
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[IPV4]: The scheduled removal of multipath cached routing support.
With help from Chris Wedgwood.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3a159dac04f5..484250dcdbe0 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -262,25 +262,6 @@ Who: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> --------------------------- -What: Multipath cached routing support in ipv4 -When: in 2.6.23 -Why: Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving - us with no maintainer and lots of bugs. The code should not have - been merged in the first place, and many aspects of it's - implementation are blocking more critical core networking - development. It's marked EXPERIMENTAL and no distribution - enables it because it cause obscure crashes due to unfixable bugs - (interfaces don't return errors so memory allocation can't be - handled, calling contexts of these interfaces make handling - errors impossible too because they get called after we've - totally commited to creating a route object, for example). - This problem has existed for years and no forward progress - has ever been made, and nobody steps up to try and salvage - this code, so we're going to finally just get rid of it. -Who: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - ---------------------------- - What: read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer) When: December 2007 Why: These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several |