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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next] nfilter: nf_hooks: fix build failure with NF_TABLES=n
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 18:03:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210608160325.GA1531@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210608155326.GH20020@breakpoint.cc>

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:53:26PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > Maybe from Kconfig, select CONFIG_NF_TABLES from NFNETLINK_HOOK to
> > reduce ifdef pollution?
> 
> Why? It doesn't depend on nftables?

From kernelside, yes. But you have to compile userspace nftables to
use this infra, unless there is separated tooling, userspace library
or you code your own netlink userspace code.

Adding the "depends on" might also help signal distros that this
subsystem is useful to be turned on.

The #ifdef is perfectly fine to fix the kbuild robot issue, I was just
thinking if it is probably better a different path when looking at the
whole picture.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <202106082146.9TmnLWJk-lkp@intel.com>
2021-06-08 14:42 ` [PATCH nf-next] nfilter: nf_hooks: fix build failure with NF_TABLES=n Florian Westphal
2021-06-08 15:46   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2021-06-08 15:53     ` Florian Westphal
2021-06-08 16:03       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2021-06-08 20:11         ` Florian Westphal

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