From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 30B213783A0; Thu, 2 Apr 2026 21:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1775166661; cv=none; b=kfjU5YT3HAsDFexZIRbtxda8FbmF4jHJ2ob87p2pm/4x3/ZwANean7PZszlgumSGGJrDjPSaXgX2GGZtKwznIiVm8Oz4ZlrbZ19FGVeCuvFe1WJ+uhNaw8mQemb3xKwQyAaJSV9fTeVP4cLHOmU236VajARX/58UGEhACSLmFMc= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1775166661; c=relaxed/simple; bh=+iWo8G+lGLAR0AEWKadkwlt32LjzfIOHKPITuBCakWs=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=OobjlbgR1l4o7IurPzNLwLvNRkSElKo16sx1D0IiIChSvFcY13dbe2tNDdsqfiCbxp8aXjljdE9jzK1B1o8OgPgkaM5RHjW9RVTyGJIFBcU+YE5D0HgI9/3jg/5wI2SE3GCGaxhv1B70rQ9zSDGJNUBjJQpTTkn+g7uydlO4xcs= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=uh7N/3FR; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="uh7N/3FR" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 81CFAC116C6; Thu, 2 Apr 2026 21:50:55 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1775166660; bh=+iWo8G+lGLAR0AEWKadkwlt32LjzfIOHKPITuBCakWs=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=uh7N/3FRUjqua+aPCo/hGr/AdrmusEl1H/a3Cy2K3ax/7zWAaowq7QLQao9luVbWo hhp+ELOy56vNZgWo/30UXJ+R+KNwAUX+g9t5upzBm19UO38qCmclRomH9W9JilFn3g 1M3od6tckFksVcXsO4otmEq7oBs2ncVax1WS/48Gk7Y/jRGn5aI6Ty0S32Qrtb3v+N FCfqxPCfuHXXK+tb8kOeAkmUobWREiK7V0IqzM0OnWy9oCVbOYxajs4XGYlWHY2x7t AkBA5ON0TiTxqW6AtiPnUW+DWm5PHRBPUIiBBcwzXpeViYkdJ68cXcODxvoTFEl/DM YZIYLd1IONOQA== Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 15:50:54 -0600 (MDT) From: Paul Walmsley To: "Vincent Mailhol (Arm)" cc: Nathan Chancellor , Nicolas Schier , Mikko Rapeli , Richard Henderson , Matt Turner , Magnus Lindholm , Russell King , Aaro Koskinen , Andreas Kemnade , Kevin Hilman , Roger Quadros , Tony Lindgren , Huacai Chen , WANG Xuerui , Thomas Bogendoerfer , Madhavan Srinivasan , Michael Ellerman , Nicholas Piggin , "Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Alexandre Ghiti , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Alexander Gordeev , Christian Borntraeger , Sven Schnelle , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , John Paul Adrian Glaubitz , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , x86@kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Clark Williams , Steven Rostedt , Pablo Neira Ayuso , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Alim Akhtar , Frank Li , Sascha Hauer , Pengutronix Kernel Team , Fabio Estevam , Vladimir Zapolskiy , Piotr Wojtaszczyk , Liviu Dudau , Sudeep Holla , Lorenzo Pieralisi , Geert Uytterhoeven , Magnus Damm , Vladimir Kondratiev , Gregory CLEMENT , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Th=E9o_Lebrun?= , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Janusz Krzysztofik , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Jonathan_Neusch=E4fer?= , Chris Zankel , Max Filippov , Thomas Zimmermann , Arnd Bergmann , Heiko Stuebner , Kuninori Morimoto , Mark Brown , Eric Biggers , Ard Biesheuvel , Sricharan Ramabadhran , Bjorn Andersson , Michael Walle , Guenter Roeck , Srinivas Kandagatla , "Rob Herring (Arm)" , Dmitry Baryshkov , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Anna Schumaker , Alexandre Gonzalo , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-samsung-soc@vger.kernel.org, imx@lists.linux.dev, linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, openbmc@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] configs: remove orphan dependencies of NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY In-Reply-To: <20260317-arm_defconf_cleanup-v1-2-8eecb7fdd24d@kernel.org> Message-ID: <576cec38-a5e4-5391-2a57-b164e84a813f@kernel.org> References: <20260317-arm_defconf_cleanup-v1-0-8eecb7fdd24d@kernel.org> <20260317-arm_defconf_cleanup-v1-2-8eecb7fdd24d@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 17 Mar 2026, Vincent Mailhol (Arm) wrote: > Since its introduction in commit 9fce66583f06 ("netfilter: Exclude > LEGACY TABLES on PREEMPT_RT."), the configurations below all depend, > either directly or indirectly, on CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY: > > - CONFIG_NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CHECKSUM > - CONFIG_IP_NF_FILTER > - CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT > - CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT > - CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE > - CONFIG_IP_NF_MANGLE > - CONFIG_IP6_NF_FILTER > - CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_REJECT > - CONFIG_IP6_NF_MANGLE > - CONFIG_IP6_NF_NAT > - CONFIG_IP6_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE > > This new dependency caused many symbols to become orphaned, meaning > their dependencies are no longer satisfied and Kconfig drops them from > the final configuration. > > Note that CONFIG_NFT_COMPAT is another parent dependency, so the > above-listed symbols would not become orphaned as long as NFT_COMPAT > is present. > > Considering that these are legacy options and that nobody complained > in recent kernel releases when these options were already missing, it > is safe to assume they can be removed. > > Suppress all these configuration symbols in all the defconfig files > that have neither CONFIG_NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY nor > CONFIG_NFT_COMPAT set. > > FYI, the suppressions were done using: > > git grep -z -L -E '^CONFIG_(NETFILTER_XTABLES_LEGACY|NFT_COMPAT)=(y|m)$' -- 'arch/*/configs/*defconfig' |\ > xargs -0 sed -i -E '/^CONFIG_(NETFILTER_XT_TARGET_CHECKSUM|IP_NF_FILTER|IP_NF_TARGET_REJECT|IP_NF_NAT|IP_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE|IP_NF_MANGLE|IP6_NF_FILTER|IP6_NF_TARGET_REJECT|IP6_NF_MANGLE|IP6_NF_NAT|IP6_NF_TARGET_MASQUERADE)=(y|m)$/d' > > Fixes: 9fce66583f06 ("netfilter: Exclude LEGACY TABLES on PREEMPT_RT.") > Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol (Arm) Acked-by: Paul Walmsley # arch/riscv - Paul