Re: [PATCHSET 0/8] PKT_SCHED: Use gnet_stats for actions and policer

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:58:16 +0100
Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is the last patchset in my attempt to clean up traffic
> control statistics. It converts the action and policer code
> to the gnet_stats API.
> 
> I decided to not provide backward compatibility for action
> statistics and introduce a new TLV type TCA_ACT_STATS for them
> in order to get some consistency and be prepared if we ever
> introduce statistics to classifiers. This was approved by Jamal.

All applied, very nice work Thomas.

> Shall I mark the old estimator and statistic API as __deprecated
> or remove it right away?

Since nothing in the tree uses it any more, let's just kill it
outright.