Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Sep 21 2004 - 17:04:07 EST


On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 22:36, Marc Ballarin wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:09:02 +1000
> "Rusty Russell (IBM)" <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Name: Warn that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away
> > Status: Trivial
> > Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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.
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