Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/8] netfilter: header compilation fixes

[Jeremy Sowden <jeremy@azazel.net>]

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On 2019-08-13, at 11:55:29 +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 03:16:57PM +0100, Jeremy Sowden wrote:
> > A number of netfilter header files are on the header-test blacklist
> > becuse they cannot be compiled stand-alone.   There are two main
> > reasons for this: missing inclusions of other headers, and missing
> > conditionals checking for CONFIG_* symbols.
> >
> > The first six of these patches rectify these omissions, the seventh
> > removes some unnecessary "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks, and the last
> > removes all the NF headers from the blacklist.
> >
> > I've cc'ed Masahiro Yamada because the last patch removes 74 lines
> > from include/Kbuild and may conflict with his kbuild tree.
>
> Series applied, one comment below.
>
> > Jeremy Sowden (8):
> >   netfilter: inlined four headers files into another one.
> >   netfilter: added missing includes to a number of header-files.
> >   netfilter: added missing IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER) checks to
> >     header-file.
> >   netfilter: added missing IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_TABLES) check to
> >     header-file.
> >   netfilter: added missing IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK) checks to
> >     some header-files.
> >   netfilter: added missing IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NETFILTER) checks to some
> >     header-files.
> >   netfilter: removed "#ifdef __KERNEL__" guards from some headers.
> >   kbuild: removed all netfilter headers from header-test blacklist.
>
> Would you mind if - before pushing this out - I do this string
> replacement for the patch subject?
>
> s/added/add
> s/removed/remove
> s/inlined/inline
>
> I was told present tense is preferred for description. Otherwise, I'll
> leave them as is.

I adopted past tenses because at the point at which one is reading the
description of a commit, one is usually reading about old behaviour and
what has been done to change it.  However, I wasn't aware that there was
a preference and I am happy to switch to the present tense instead, so
by all means feel free to change them.

J.

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