Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:36:46 +0200
From: Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:58:22 +1000
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:

> 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).

I was rather thinking of some prominent printks at module init time.
People using distro kernels will never see compile time warnings.

I just added some warnings, but modprobe ipchains always fails on
2.6.9-rc2:

FATAL: Error inserting ipchains
(/lib/modules/2.6.9-rc2-rcf/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.ko): Device
or resource busy

in log buffer:
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 332 bytes per
conntrack
Unable to register netfilter socket option

Am I missing something?

Regards
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