Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:36:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
cc: Marc Ballarin <Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de>, 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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Rusty Russell wrote:

> 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.
> --

What replaces the firewall stuff? It can't just "go away"!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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