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Re: Shaper driver in drivers/net/shaper.c

To: amitk@ittc.ku.edu (Amit Kucheria)
Subject: Re: Shaper driver in drivers/net/shaper.c
From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 19:39:45 -0500 (EST)
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org (Kernel newbies), alan@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203011820410.5573-100000@havoc.ittc.ku.edu> from "Amit Kucheria" at Mar 01, 2002 06:37:37 PM
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> In the the code, i see that 4 shaper devices have been 'statically' 
> defined. Why? Can't i create more shaper devices?

You could. The driver is obsolete so its not really been worth touching.
Everything it does can be done better with the traffic shaping code in
the core kernel
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