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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC] TTL target goes mainline ?
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 17:24:28 +0200
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Phil Oester wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:41:27PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>Sure :) I just think its nicer than to enable "sub-functionality" by
>>config options, so if its there, its usable. I also don't think there
>>are people who actually have CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL disabled, so in
>>the end, we just save a few ifdefs in the code.
> 
> Agree that almost everyone enables CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.  How about 
> an IP_NF_TARGET_TTL_DEC which depends on IP_NF_TARGET_TTL, and which
> has a nice big warning about being dangerous?

I think documenting the issue is enough, users have plenty of ways of
shooting themselves.