Re: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-22 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:48:48AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Do we really have to wait the three years between stable Debian releases for removing an obsolete driver that has always been marked as EXPERIMENTAL? Please be serious. I am completely serious. The traditional cycle of obsolete

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:47:07PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:48:48AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Do we really have to wait the three years between stable Debian releases for removing an obsolete driver that has always been marked as EXPERIMENTAL? Please

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-22 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 19:20 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 12:47:07PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:48:48AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: Do we really have to wait the three years between stable Debian releases for removing an obsolete driver

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-22 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:32:56PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: The only supported combinations are distributions with the kernels they ship. I think you're being unreasonable here. Absolutely. The statement is also completely false. Fedora rebases to a new point release shortly

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:57:22PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:11:50AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: +What: Traffic Shaper (CONFIG_SHAPER) +When: July 2006 +Why:obsoleted by the code in net/sched/ +Who:Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] This length of

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Subject: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal Replaced by what; the QoS subsystem? config SHAPER - tristate Traffic Shaper (EXPERIMENTAL) + tristate Traffic Shaper (OBSOLETE) depends on EXPERIMENTAL Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-19 Thread Benjamin LaHaise
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:11:50AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: +What: Traffic Shaper (CONFIG_SHAPER) +When: July 2006 +Why:obsoleted by the code in net/sched/ +Who:Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] This length of obsolete cycles is way too short -- it's not even enough time for a

[2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This patch was already sent on: - 13 Jan 2006 --- linux-2.6.15-mm3-full/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt.old 2006-01-13 15:02:15.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.15-mm3-full/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

[2.6 patch] schedule SHAPER for removal

2006-01-13 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 01:58:58AM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2006-01-11 at 01:53 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: shaper is completely obsolete and it's probably best to just remove all references to it and the kernel driver too. I would agree with that but it nees to go through a proper