Re: [PATCH V4 2/2] netfilter: Complete the deprecation of CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Tim Gardner wrote:
> CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT has been deprecated for awhile and
> was originally scheduled for removal by 2.6.29.
>   

Thanks, looks fine.
> [   61.669627] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (16384 buckets, 65536 max)
> [   61.669850] CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT is deprecated and will be removed soon. Please use
> [   61.669852] nf_conntrack.acct=1 kernel parameter, acct=1 nf_conntrack module option or
> [   61.669853] sysctl net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_acct=1 to enable it.
>
> --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> @@ -1597,8 +1597,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
>  			[NETFILTER] Enable connection tracking flow accounting
>  			0 to disable accounting
>  			1 to enable accounting
> -			Default value depends on CONFIG_NF_CT_ACCT that is
> -			going to be removed in 2.6.29.
> +			Default value is 1
>   
The default should be off though, that was the point of the warning message,
people using it are supposed to manually enable it. No need to resend, I'll
manually change this when applying the patches.