[3480] in linux-net channel archive
Re: shaper or whatever
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Tue Jun 25 06:27:24 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 10:06:50 +0100 (BST)
Cc: tytso@mit.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199606242007.QAA17251@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Jun 24, 96 04:07:14 pm
> No...it has to do with the fact that every time you touch something you
> risk breaking it (if only accidentally). The more things that you touch the
> more problems that can occur. Once things work its nice to not have to
> touch them, thats all.
Thats why keeping the kernel very modular is critical. The prototype traffic
shaper needs no changes to the main kernel. You can just load the module and
go. It also makes no device driver changes.
Alan
