Re: stuff ready to be deleted?

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 04:20:24 -0400 (EDT)

> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> >
> > On May 28 2007 18:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >On Mon, 28 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >
> > >> >currently, the list contains the items:
> > >> >
> > >> >    * 4 Traffic policing
> > >>
> > >> CONFIG_NET_SCHED? CONFIG_NET_ACT_POLICE? Neither seems
> > >> marked as deprecated/obsoleted in Kconfig.
> > >
> > >the "traffic policing" entry in that list refers specifically to the
> > >config option "CLS_NET_POLICE" in net/sched/Kconfig:
> > >
> > >config NET_CLS_POLICE
> > >        bool "Traffic Policing (obsolete)"
> > >        depends on NET_CLS_ACT!=y
> > >
> > >so ... does "obsolete" really mean "obsolete"?
> >
> > Have you taken a look at the Makefile? See this oddity:
> >
> > obj-$(CONFIG_NET_ACT_POLICE)    += act_police.o
> > obj-$(CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE)    += act_police.o
> >
> > So is the Kconfig entry all that is obsolete?
> 
> ah, i hadn't noticed that.  how odd.  now i don't know *what* to
> think.

Look at what tests that config option in the code, not just
what the makefiles do.