From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] nfnetlink: add netns support
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:37:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100113133727.GC16975@x200> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4DCA2C.7020000@trash.net>
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:27:08PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 02:02:33PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >> Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> >
> >>> + struct sock *nfnl;
> >>> + struct sock *nfnl_stash;
> >> Shouldn't this be contained in an ifdef(CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK)
> >> (_MODULE) ?
> >
> > No, otherwise you won't be able to start using, e. g., nfnetlink_log
> > module on NETFILTER_NETLINK=n kernels without reboot.
>
> You mean after enabling CONFIG_NETFILTER_NETLINK?
Yes, and it can't be directly enabled, because it's hidden option.
> That seems like a pretty poor argument, you have to do a reboot after
> changing a lot of config options.
It's still a step back if I add #ifdef and a regression if you ask me.
The price is only two pointers per-netns.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-13 13:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-13 12:24 [PATCH 1/2] nfnetlink: add netns support Alexey Dobriyan
2010-01-13 13:02 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-13 13:22 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-01-13 13:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-13 13:37 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2010-01-13 13:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2010-01-13 13:47 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2010-01-13 13:49 ` Patrick McHardy
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