From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:43:30 +0100 > [rw@sapphire]~/work/linux-2-6/net/netfilter $find -name '*.c' | xargs grep '^#ifdef' | wc -l > 239 > [rw@sapphire]~/work/linux-2-6/net/netfilter $.. > [rw@sapphire]~/work/linux-2-6/net $find -name '*.c' | xargs grep '^#ifdef' | wc -l > 1672 You've shown nothing. Showing exceptions does not prove that the general effort has been to keep ifdef crap out of *.c files. And every developer or maintainer who says no to ifdefs in *.c files for new changes is %100 right. We're also specifically talking about namespace stuff, so you should have at least refined your match criteria just a little bit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html