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

[Marc Ballarin]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 07:58:22 +1000
Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au> wrote:

> 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).

I was rather thinking of some prominent printks at module init time.
People using distro kernels will never see compile time warnings.

I just added some warnings, but modprobe ipchains always fails on
2.6.9-rc2:

FATAL: Error inserting ipchains
(/lib/modules/2.6.9-rc2-rcf/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains.ko): Device
or resource busy

in log buffer:
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8191 buckets, 65528 max) - 332 bytes per
conntrack
Unable to register netfilter socket option

Am I missing something?

Regards