From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:17:43 +1000
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:03:47PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > It was put in for Xen, but if you as the resident beat the crap out > > of Xen networking guru don't know about it we should probably just > > kill it. Especially as we usually kill dead code pretty fast. > > Heh, I wasn't touching Xen back then. > > That's good news actually. Xen has now killed their custom alloc_skb > so this is no longer needed. Besides, even if they needed it they'll > have to patch it in anyway since you've already killed the ifdef that > lets them have a custom alloc_skb :) > > [NET]: Get rid of alloc_skb_from_cache > > Since this was added originally for Xen, and Xen has recently (~2.6.18) > stopped using this function, we can safely get rid of it. Good timing > too since this function has started to bit rot. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. You missed the arch/x86_64/kernel/functionlist reference but I took care of that for you :-) I'm going to push this into 2.6.21 because the sooner this dies the better, even though it will make for some net-2.6.22 merge hassles for me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
