Re: BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES dependency on BRIDGE_NETFILTER

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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 2009-05-27 11:28, sachin sanap wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>Iam using 2.6.29.2 kernel and I dont understand why is
>>BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES dependent on BRIDGE_NETFILTER in
>>net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig ? I can remove the dependency and
>>successfully compile the kernel with BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES on and
>>BRIDGE_NETFILTER off.
>>Does net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig need an update or iam missing
>>something obvious?
>
> But what are you going to do with ebtables.ko if there is no one
> to make function calls into it?
>
NF_HOOK is called from two places one from the code thats enabled
because of BRIDGE_NETFILTER  i.e net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
and other from the bridge code itself i.e  net/bridge/br_forward.c
net/bridge/br_input.c etc

so that should not be a problem.
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