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: kill obsolete NET_CLS_POLICE option

NET_SCHED Applied Patrick McHardy 2 participants 2 messages Jan 20, 2008 – Jan 21, 2008

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commit 2af10cb220dd73b91323d052f7ca4cb808906e78

Author: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jan 16 12:22:06 2008 +0100

[NET_SCHED]: kill obsolete NET_CLS_POLICE option

The code is already gone for about half a year, the config option has been kept around to select the replacement options for easier upgrades. This seems long enough, people upgrading from older kernels will have to reconfigure a lot anyway.

Signed-off-by Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
net/sched/Kconfig +0 -9
index 63882c5..4eb73ec 100644
@@ -481,15 +481,6 @@ config NET_ACT_SIMP
 	  To compile this code as a module, choose M here: the
 	  module will be called simple.
 
-config NET_CLS_POLICE
-	bool "Traffic Policing (obsolete)"
-	select NET_CLS_ACT
-	select NET_ACT_POLICE
-	---help---
-	  Say Y here if you want to do traffic policing, i.e. strict
-	  bandwidth limiting. This option is obsolete and just selects
-	  the option replacing it. It will be removed in the future.
-
 config NET_CLS_IND
 	bool "Incoming device classification"
 	depends on NET_CLS_U32 || NET_CLS_FW
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From: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:48:16 +0100

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[NET_SCHED]: kill obsolete NET_CLS_POLICE option

The code is already gone for about half a year, the config option has been kept around to select the replacement options for easier upgrades. This seems long enough, people upgrading from older kernels will have to reconfigure a lot anyway.

Signed-off-by Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>

Applied to net-2.6.25