From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Westphal Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] netfilter: remove messages print and boot/module load time Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:06:04 +0100 Message-ID: <20180119130604.GB21673@breakpoint.cc> References: <20180119124702.2650-1-pablo@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Return-path: Received: from Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc ([146.0.238.67]:33988 "EHLO Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754951AbeASNIh (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:08:37 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180119124702.2650-1-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Acked-by: Florian Westphal