Re: [2.4 patch] netfilter Configure.help cleanup

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:50:24PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:06:49AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > In message <20030717201304.GL1407@fs.tum.de> you write:
> >
> > > the patch below does the following changes to the netfilter entries in
> > > Configure.help in 2.4.22-pre2:
> > > - order similar to net/ipv4/netfilter/Config.in
> > > - remove useless short descriptions above CONFIG_*
> > > - added CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_RECENT entry (stolen from 2.5)
> > 
> > Sorry Adrian, I think this is overzealous.
> > 
> > Please just add the CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_RECENT entry.  Remember,
> > "stable" means "boring". 8)
> 
> I will submit the RECENT entry to davem with my next set of patches.
> 
> Does everybody else have an ordered Configure.help?  if yes, I'd accept

Most subsytems have their Configure.help entries ordered according to 
the Config.in order.

> the patch to comply with common practice.  If not, I would just say: who
> cares about the order, it's processed by {old,menu,x}config anyway.

I'm not religious regarding the order of Configure.help entries, and in 
2.6 this problem will be non-existant.

cu
Adrian

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