Kernel build suspicious warnings 2.6.14-5, iptables 1.3.4, POM-20051227

[David S. Miller]

From: "Greg Scott" <GregScott at InfraSupportEtc.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 00:44:02 -0600

> These are only warnings but they make me suspicious.  Should I be
> worried?  Could the warnings below be because something in the kernel
> calls the modules in question but the modules haven't been built yet?
> But why would anything in the inline kernel call an optional module
> loaded from POM?  I've run into several errors getting this far.  I'll
> try a "make mrproper" and then "make all" to build it all from scratch
> now and see what happens.  

That tarpit module, as mentioned here by myself in a posting
from last week, is broken and is depending on a symbol that
is not exported for a reason.

To reiterate: It is trying to get the ttl to use in outgoing
ipv4 frames from the sysctl, but that should instead be obtained
from the routing metrics.