Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:05:57 +0200 | From | Patrick McHardy <> | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
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James Morris wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > >> This is only the NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n default (for SECURITY=y). >> The netfilter defaults for NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n should be m/y for >> things that are needed by mainstream distributions for normal >> usage. >> >> I'm not sure how this is going to be used, James? >> > > I think the idea now is that everything new is N by default, but the > intention is to have this enabled in Fedora/RHEL.
Well, this option (NETFILTER_ADVANCED) was introduced specifically so Linus doesn't have to go through and enable all the netfilter options manually :)
The idea was that NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n enables everything needed by mainstream distributions and hides the rest. We can certainly change the default for this option, but that makes NETFILTER_ADVANCED pretty much useless.
> Patrick, would you please fix this up? The only dev box I have access to > at the moment doesn't boot with recent git (I think it's the macbook2 > issue).
Sure. I'd like to hear whether Linus still wants this changed though.
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