Re: CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED

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On Nov 16 2007 01:06, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
>> Patrick I would like to propose that we do something similar to how we
>> handle all the non-trivial routing and TCP congestion control
>> settings.
>>
>> And that is to have an "ADVANCED" guard that simply doesn't present
>> the myriad of netfilter modules and options we have.
>>
>> Basically, if the user doesn't set CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED he gets
>> basic NAT and connection tracking support, that's it.
>>
>> Or at least something along those lines.

> That sounds good, I believe we already talked at the workshop about
> this. Additionally I'd like something that selects all modules at
> once if it doesn't get too ugly since its a PITA to go through all
> the options, and I usually do enable them :). I'll look into these
> two things tommorrow.

Yeah, I'd agree that on CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED=no, all the fluffy
modules should be selected. It is largely an allmodconfig inside
the nf menuconfig tree.
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