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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-04-27 01:04:23 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2007-04-27 01:04:23 -0700
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[IPV4]: Add multipath cached to feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -292,3 +292,22 @@ Why: the i8xx_tco watchdog driver has been replaced by the iTCO_wdt
Who: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
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+
+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>
+
+---------------------------