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Status of net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_icmp.c?

PATCH Applied Adrian Bunk 4 participants 6 messages May 13, 2005 – Jun 2, 2005

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Hi,

can anyone explain the status of?

This file is always included in the kernel if CONFIG_IP_VS=y, but it's completely unused.

Will it be made working in the forseeable future or is it a candidate for removal?

TIA
Adrian

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Quoted 17 lines · Andres Salomon
Quoted 4 lines · Adrian Bunk

Hi,

can anyone explain the status of?

Quoted 8 lines

This file is always included in the kernel if CONFIG_IP_VS=y, but it's completely unused.

Will it be made working in the forseeable future or is it a candidate for removal?

TIA
Adrian

The people/places to ask would probably be:

Quoted 7 lines

IPVS

P:      Wensong Zhang
M:      [email protected]
P:      Julian Anastasov
M:      [email protected]
S:      Maintained

...

And these are exactly the people in the To-header of the email asking this question.

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Adrian

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PATCH 1/1 remove net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_icmp.c?

Quoted 10 lines · Julian Anastasov

Hello,

Quoted 2 lines · Adrian Bunk

Will it be made working in the forseeable future or is it a candidate for removal?

IMO, it can be removed as it was never finished. We can always
add it later.

Thanks for the confirmation.

A patch to remove it is below.

Quoted 2 lines

Regards
Julian Anastasov <[email protected]>

cu
Adrian

<-- snip -->

ip_vs_proto_icmp.c was never finished.

---

 net/ipv4/ipvs/Makefile           |    2 
 net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto.c      |    3 
 net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_icmp.c |  182 -------------------------------
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 186 deletions(-)
net/ipv4/ipvs/Makefile renamed from net/ipv4/ipvs/Makefile.old +1 -1
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 ip_vs-objs :=	ip_vs_conn.o ip_vs_core.o ip_vs_ctl.o ip_vs_sched.o	   \
 		ip_vs_xmit.o ip_vs_app.o ip_vs_sync.o	   		   \
-		ip_vs_est.o ip_vs_proto.o ip_vs_proto_icmp.o		   \
+		ip_vs_est.o ip_vs_proto.o 				   \
 		$(ip_vs_proto-objs-y)
 
 
net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto.c renamed from net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto.c.old +0 -3
@@ -216,9 +216,6 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_UDP
 	REGISTER_PROTOCOL(&ip_vs_protocol_udp);
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_ICMP
-	REGISTER_PROTOCOL(&ip_vs_protocol_icmp);
-#endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_IP_VS_PROTO_AH
 	REGISTER_PROTOCOL(&ip_vs_protocol_ah);
 #endif
net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_proto_icmp.c deleted +0 -182

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