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

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Date:	Thu, 24 Nov 2011 08:11:56 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAW netfilter - "advanced netfilter setting" or not?

On 23.11.2011 23:58, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 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.

Agreed, that's also the criteria we used when we introduced this option.
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