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From: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: Add dependency on IPV6 for NF_TABLES_INET
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:49:27 -0500
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Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
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To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
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On 14-01-14 10:34 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:35:42AM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> schrieb:
>>> Commit 1d49144c0aaa61be4e3ccbef9cc5c40b0ec5f2fe ("netfilter: nf_tables:
>>> add "inet" table for IPv4/IPv6") allows creation of non-IPV6 enabled
>>> .config files that will fail to configure/link as follows:
>>>
>>> warning: (NF_TABLES_INET) selects NF_TABLES_IPV6 which has unmet direct
>>> dependencies (NET && INET && IPV6 && NETFILTER && NF_TABLES)
>>> warning: (NF_TABLES_INET) selects NF_TABLES_IPV6 which has unmet direct
>>> dependencies (NET && INET && IPV6 && NETFILTER && NF_TABLES)
>>> warning: (NF_TABLES_INET) selects NF_TABLES_IPV6 which has unmet direct
>>> dependencies (NET && INET && IPV6 && NETFILTER && NF_TABLES)
>>> net/built-in.o: In function `nft_reject_eval':
>>> nft_reject.c:(.text+0x651e8): undefined reference to `nf_ip6_checksum'
>>> nft_reject.c:(.text+0x65270): undefined reference to `ip6_route_output'
>>> nft_reject.c:(.text+0x656c4): undefined reference to `ip6_dst_hoplimit'
>>> make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>>>
>>> Since the feature is to allow for a mixed IPV4 and IPV6 table, it
>>> seems sensible to make it depend on IPV6.
>>
>> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> 
> Applied, thanks.
> 
> @Paul: Please, use netfilter-devel ML instead next time. The netfilter
> ML is reserved for user questions only. Thanks.

Sure, I can do that.  But it would probably be better if
get_maintainer.pl didn't emit that particular address then.