From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: remove messages print and boot/module load time
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:06:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180119130604.GB21673@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180119124702.2650-1-pablo@netfilter.org>
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> 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.
Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-19 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-19 12:47 [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: remove messages print and boot/module load time Pablo Neira Ayuso
2018-01-19 13:06 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2018-01-19 13:13 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2018-01-19 18:50 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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