On Wednesday 2011-11-23 23:02, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> In my opinion, NETFILTER_ADVANCED should be changed to only control >> the visibility of all suboptions, i.e. I suggest that "default m if >> NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n" be done for all non-deprecated modules. >> (Similar to how CONFIG_EXPERT works.) > >No thank you. That makes the whole option pointless. [...] >The whole point of NETFILTER_ADVANCED is for people like me who >actually want a fairly *minimal* kernel config, and probably one that >has no modules. Right, but how would you decide what will be enabled/disabled by default? It seems unlikely you will be adding a patch (like Dave's) everytime a default distro installation throws certain errors once you run your own kernel configs. -- 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
