Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org,
       lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:36, Marc Ballarin wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:09:02 +1000
> "Rusty Russell (IBM)" <rusty@au1.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Name: Warn that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away
> > Status: Trivial
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
>
> Isn't a compile-time warning a bit "soft"? Especially when compilation of
> a kernel easily produces > 100 warnings, as it does right now.

Sure, but you have to start somewhere.  Next step will be #error.  Then
finally remove the whole thing (I don't want to remove the whole thing
to start with, since that would create a silent failure).

Cheers,
Rusty.
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