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From: sachin sanap <sachin.sanap.1gb@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, buytenh@wantstofly.org
Subject: Re: BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES dependency on BRIDGE_NETFILTER
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:40:26 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17923cc80905270410j62a68559y151bd20503eeb5fb@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0905271135560.13919@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 2009-05-27 11:28, sachin sanap wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>Iam using 2.6.29.2 kernel and I dont understand why is
>>BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES dependent on BRIDGE_NETFILTER in
>>net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig ? I can remove the dependency and
>>successfully compile the kernel with BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES on and
>>BRIDGE_NETFILTER off.
>>Does net/bridge/netfilter/Kconfig need an update or iam missing
>>something obvious?
>
> But what are you going to do with ebtables.ko if there is no one
> to make function calls into it?
>
NF_HOOK is called from two places one from the code thats enabled
because of BRIDGE_NETFILTER  i.e net/bridge/br_netfilter.c
and other from the bridge code itself i.e  net/bridge/br_forward.c
net/bridge/br_input.c etc

so that should not be a problem.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-27 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-27  9:28 BRIDGE_NF_EBTABLES dependency on BRIDGE_NETFILTER sachin sanap
2009-05-27  9:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-05-27 11:10   ` sachin sanap [this message]

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