On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Several reasons for this: > > * Several modules maintain internal version numbers, that they print at > boot/module load time, that are not exposed to userspace, as a > primitive mechanism to make revision number control from the earlier > days of Netfilter. > > * IPset shows the protocol version at boot/module load time, instead > display this via module description, as Jozsef suggested. > > * Remove copyright notice at boot/module load time in two spots, the > Netfilter codebase is a collective development effort, if we would > have to display copyrights for each contributor at boot/module load > time for each extensions we have, we would probably fill up logs with > lots of useless information - from a technical standpoint. > > So let's be consistent and remove them all. > > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c | 3 ++- > net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c | 5 ----- > net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c | 1 - > net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 4 ---- > net/netfilter/nfnetlink_acct.c | 2 -- > net/netfilter/nft_compat.c | 2 -- > 6 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlecsik.jozsef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- 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
