Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:28:52 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [GIT]: Networking | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:05:57 +0200
> 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.
A new feature cannot possibly be used by existing distributions. I think that's the main gripe.
Distributions themselves will enable the feature no matter what we mark it's default as.
And once the feature thus becomes pervasive we can re-adjust the default.
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