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| author | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2006-12-02 22:11:01 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2006-12-02 22:11:01 -0800 |
| commit | a3c479772c9f4239749950e7c8ea0e9c914a9d7e (patch) | |
| tree | a6996d42891dafb46b6fcb19eb797ad092b7767a | |
| parent | 807467c22a12381985878be23c778657fc0364d0 (diff) | |
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[NETFILTER]: Mark old IPv4-only connection tracking scheduled for removal
Also remove the references to "new connection tracking" from Kconfig.
After some short stabilization period of the new connection tracking
helpers/NAT code the old one will be removed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | net/netfilter/Kconfig | 6 |
4 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 82447163a0c2..f81819364b7a 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -241,3 +241,12 @@ Why: Orphaned for ages. SMP bugs long unfixed. Few users left Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> --------------------------- + +What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers +When: 2.6.22 +Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old + IPv4 only version. After some stabilization of the new code the + old one will be removed. +Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> + +--------------------------- diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig index 16390add2ebf..363df9976c9d 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/Kconfig @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ menu "IP: Netfilter Configuration" depends on INET && NETFILTER config NF_CONNTRACK_IPV4 - tristate "IPv4 support for new connection tracking (required for NAT) (EXPERIMENTAL)" + tristate "IPv4 connection tracking support (required for NAT) (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK ---help--- Connection tracking keeps a record of what packets have passed diff --git a/net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig index d7c45a9c15fe..fc3e5eb4bc3f 100644 --- a/net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/ipv6/netfilter/Kconfig @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ menu "IPv6: Netfilter Configuration (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on INET && IPV6 && NETFILTER && EXPERIMENTAL config NF_CONNTRACK_IPV6 - tristate "IPv6 support for new connection tracking (EXPERIMENTAL)" + tristate "IPv6 connection tracking support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK ---help--- Connection tracking keeps a record of what packets have passed diff --git a/net/netfilter/Kconfig b/net/netfilter/Kconfig index e0deac17df12..3a66878a1829 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/Kconfig +++ b/net/netfilter/Kconfig @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT below). config IP_NF_CONNTRACK_SUPPORT - bool "Layer 3 Dependent Connection tracking" + bool "Layer 3 Dependent Connection tracking (OBSOLETE)" help The old, Layer 3 dependent ip_conntrack subsystem of netfilter. @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ config NF_CT_PROTO_GRE depends on EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK config NF_CT_PROTO_SCTP - tristate 'SCTP protocol on new connection tracking support (EXPERIMENTAL)' + tristate 'SCTP protocol connection tracking support (EXPERIMENTAL)' depends on EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK default n help @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ config NF_CONNTRACK_AMANDA To compile it as a module, choose M here. If unsure, say N. config NF_CONNTRACK_FTP - tristate "FTP support on new connection tracking (EXPERIMENTAL)" + tristate "FTP protocol support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on EXPERIMENTAL && NF_CONNTRACK help Tracking FTP connections is problematic: special helpers are |