Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265331AbUIVOB0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:01:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265395AbUIVOB0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:01:26 -0400 Received: from mail.dif.dk ([193.138.115.101]:5520 "EHLO mail.dif.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265331AbUIVOBY (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:01:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:58:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Jesper Juhl To: Marc Ballarin Cc: Patrick McHardy , davem@davemloft.net, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away. In-Reply-To: <20040922153707.2cc1d886.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> Message-ID: References: <1095721742.5886.128.camel@bach> <20040921143613.2dc78e2f.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <1095803902.1942.211.camel@bach> <20040922003646.3a84f4c5.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <20040921153600.2e732ea6.davem@davemloft.net> <20040922013516.753044db.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> <4150C448.5040604@trash.net> <20040922153707.2cc1d886.Ballarin.Marc@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1430 Lines: 44 On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Marc Ballarin wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 15:37:07 +0200 > From: Marc Ballarin > To: Patrick McHardy > Cc: davem@davemloft.net, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, torvalds@osdl.org, > netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away. > > On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 02:16:08 +0200 > Patrick McHardy wrote: > > > Fixed by this patch. > > Yes, works fine. Does this mean that ipchains was broken for a while, but > no one complained? > > Anyway, here is another trivial patch against -bk7 that adds runtime > warnings. IMO most users are going to miss compile time warnings, or > won't even compile kernels themselves. > I like having runtime info as well as a compile time warning, but maybe the message should mention that iptables is staying and people should migrate?? > + printk(KERN_WARNING > + "Warning: ipchains is obsolete, and will be removed soon!\n"); > + Perhaps something like this instead: "Warning: ipchains is obsolete, and will be removed soon. Please migrate to iptables." -- Jesper Juhl - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/