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| author | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-04-27 01:04:23 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-04-27 01:04:23 -0700 |
| commit | 49e9f70f8e7a4df00a5185e7f5c91e3c583847db (patch) | |
| tree | abd4c6b2406e421530077ec0da884260327fb6f4 | |
| parent | f16bfc1c0958ff340a02779ab139b03fb5ba6e82 (diff) | |
[IPV4]: Add multipath cached to feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 976c8a1bd7cd..6da663607f7b 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -292,3 +292,22 @@ Why: the i8xx_tco watchdog driver has been replaced by the iTCO_wdt Who: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> --------------------------- + +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> + +--------------------------- |