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[NET]: kconfig, correct traffic shaper

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As Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> suggested, Traffic Shaper is now
obsolete and alternative to it is no longer CBQ, since its problems with
virtual devices, alter Kconfig text to reflect this -- put a link to the
traffic schedulers as a whole.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jiri Slaby 2006-11-06 14:34:48 -08:00 committed by David S. Miller
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@ -2833,7 +2833,7 @@ config NET_FC
"SCSI generic support".
config SHAPER
tristate "Traffic Shaper (EXPERIMENTAL)"
tristate "Traffic Shaper (OBSOLETE)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
---help---
The traffic shaper is a virtual network device that allows you to
@ -2842,9 +2842,9 @@ config SHAPER
these virtual devices. See
<file:Documentation/networking/shaper.txt> for more information.
An alternative to this traffic shaper is the experimental
Class-Based Queuing (CBQ) scheduling support which you get if you
say Y to "QoS and/or fair queuing" above.
An alternative to this traffic shaper are traffic schedulers which
you'll get if you say Y to "QoS and/or fair queuing" in
"Networking options".
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called shaper. If unsure, say N.