On 19 January 2018 at 13:47, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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> Acked-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
