netdev - Re: RAW netfilter - "advanced netfilter setting" or not?

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Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:58:25 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAW netfilter - "advanced netfilter setting" or not?

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> wrote:
>
> Right, but how would you decide what will be enabled/disabled by
> default? It seems unlikely you will be adding a patch (like Dave's)
> everytime a default distro installation throws certain errors once
> you run your own kernel configs.

I do think that "major distributions do this by default" should simply
be the point for deciding it. Nothing more, nothing less.

                      Linus
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