Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:53:26PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote: > > Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Maybe from Kconfig, select CONFIG_NF_TABLES from NFNETLINK_HOOK to > > > reduce ifdef pollution? > > > > Why? It doesn't depend on nftables? > > From kernelside, yes. But you have to compile userspace nftables to > use this infra, unless there is separated tooling, userspace library > or you code your own netlink userspace code. > > Adding the "depends on" might also help signal distros that this > subsystem is useful to be turned on. > > The #ifdef is perfectly fine to fix the kbuild robot issue, I was just > thinking if it is probably better a different path when looking at the > whole picture. Fair enough, please discard this, I will send the depends-on patch then.
