[Cake] [lede-project/source] Add support for cake qdisc (#72)

[Dave Täht]

I still think squashing is very important, and essentially required by
several rfcs.


On 6/1/16 3:02 AM, Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant wrote:
> To try and keep everyone in the loop this has also been sent to the cake
> list.
> 
> LR;DR - There's a pull request to the LEDE tree to integrate cake as a
> patch to tc as well as a small, separate core package for
> kmod-sched-cake.  This is a good thing.  The pull request is
> https://github.com/lede-project/source/pull/72
> 
> Hannu Nyman is the author of the patch included in the PR - I've
> volunteered to be maintainer until cake really, really, really goes
> upstream.  Lucky me :-)
> 
> Hannu's patch included an improvement in column alignment on tc -s qdisc
> show output.  I have updated Dave's tc-adv tree to include this cosmetic
> change
> https://github.com/dtaht/tc-adv/commit/54794117daef5dd16e0ccec4b821f0c67e6b9ede
> 
> 
> Jonathan made reference to "a particular misfeature that should be
> deleted".  This mis-feature is DSCP washing.  This has been brought up
> before and to that end I put in some pull requests removing said
> facility to Dave's cake & tc-adv repos.  On that previous occasion it
> was decided it could stay but again it has been mentioned as being
> something undesirable.  I dug around, found my previous 'nosquashwash'
> trees, rebased them and have submitted pull requests again.
> 
> https://github.com/dtaht/tc-adv/pull/10
> https://github.com/dtaht/sch_cake/pull/25
> 
> Maybe it will save a little work.  Or if JM happy I will commit them as
> is.  I personally would like this stumbling block removed for better or
> for worse, let's not stumble over it again :-)
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 31/05/16 19:46, Hannu Nyman wrote:
>> I have amended the commit (and it is rebased to the current LEDE head)
>>
>>   * import the cake commit recommended by @chromi
>>     <https://github.com/chromi>
>>   * define Kevin as the maintainer for cake, thanks @kdarbyshirebryant
>>     <https://github.com/kdarbyshirebryant>
>>
>> @kdarbyshirebryant <https://github.com/kdarbyshirebryant> , regarding
>> maintenance:
>>
>>   * The cake part is easily maintainable, as the Makefile here just
>>     defines the commit to be fetched from the original cake repo and
>>     sets date as the version.
>>   * tc patch may require some manual diff work if the later changes in
>>     tc-adv are complex. I actually created my patch a few months ago by
>>     making a diff of your tc-adv4.3 branch (that contained tc-adv
>>     applied to iproute 4.3) to plain iproute. Then I pruned the
>>     non-essential parts (e.g. extra/old cake versions still present in
>>     tc-adv, changes to other qdiscs, man pages etc.) from the patch and
>>     left only the cake stuff to be compiled. And that was not actually
>>     very much. Basically just a new module for tc, small changes to a
>>     header file and Makefile. I have since then updated the patch to
>>     include the two commits from @chromi <https://github.com/chromi> in
>>     April.
>>
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