Re: [Patch] (updated) netfilter: remove deprecated CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT

Cong Wang
2009-10-20T09:56:18Z

Sorry that I lost this thread. :(

Krzysztof Olędzki wrote:
> [resend, previously I incorrectly copied netfilter-devel-owner]
>
> Adding CC to netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, where netfilter
> related issues are discussed.
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Amerigo Wang wrote:
>
>>
>> CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is scheduled to be removed in 2.6.29.
>>
>> Cc: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
>> Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
>
> This is not so easy - it was decided that we don't want to remove it
> just that because of connbytes. The final conclusion was to keep it
> disabled by default (if not enabled by kernel/modules/sysctl option) but
> enabling it automatically for the current NS if nefilter rules contains
> "-m connbytes".
>
> Sorry, I should have gotten into this and finished it earlier, my bad. :(

No problem.

So we just want CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT=n in default configs?

Thanks!