Tim Mattox wrote:
It is dead code, as-is, in the kernel. It would require patches to
actually work at all.
It is impossible that fastrouting is being actively used, without patches.
Jeff
Some might consider dropping in a new network driver module a patch,
others wouldn't... Anyway, as I said before, IMHO I agree its dead code
worthy of removal unless someone comes up with a GigE driver that
actually uses it.
Driver use is completely irrelevant :)
Regardless of what any driver does, the IPv4 code in the kernel does not
make use of the RTCF_FAST flag, once set. All the fastrouting driver
support API/code amounts to precisely nothing.
Unless the --core net stack-- is patched again to support fastrouting,
all this is dead code.
Jeff
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