[Cake] Cake on LEDE - package maintainer required

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:41:05 +0100
Kevin Darbyshire-Bryant <kevin at darbyshire-bryant.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> This email finds me looking for a volunteer/s to take over the ownership 
> of the cake qdisc module package in LEDE.
> 
> It's not particularly onerous, in essence making sure the package points 
> at the git commit considered 'stable'.
> 
> In theory there's a 'matching' user space patch for 'tc' in the 
> 'iproute2' package to ensure it agrees with the kernel space qdisc.
> 
> My advice is for everyone to take a step back very quickly...as the last 
> person left forward of the line will get it ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kevin

I will keeping asking the questions.
If it works and has value, why is it not upstream?
If is not upstream, does it still matter?