From e06e7c615877026544ad7f8b309d1a3706410383 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David S. Miller" Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:22:39 -0700 Subject: [IPV4]: The scheduled removal of multipath cached routing support. With help from Chris Wedgwood. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') 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 --------------------------- -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 - ---------------------------- - 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b