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netfilter: bridge: clarify bridge/netfilter message

Message ID 20160928220528.17478-1-stefan@agner.ch
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Stefan Agner Sept. 28, 2016, 10:05 p.m. UTC
When using bridge without bridge netfilter enabled the message
displayed is rather confusing and leads to belive that a deprecated
feature is in use. Use IS_MODULE to be explicit that the message only
affects users which use bridge netfilter as module and reword the
message.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
---
 net/bridge/br.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Florian Westphal Sept. 29, 2016, 2:25 a.m. UTC | #1
Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> wrote:
> When using bridge without bridge netfilter enabled the message
> displayed is rather confusing and leads to belive that a deprecated
> feature is in use. Use IS_MODULE to be explicit that the message only
> affects users which use bridge netfilter as module and reword the
> message.

Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
David Miller Oct. 3, 2016, 2:44 a.m. UTC | #2
From: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 15:05:28 -0700

> When using bridge without bridge netfilter enabled the message
> displayed is rather confusing and leads to belive that a deprecated
> feature is in use. Use IS_MODULE to be explicit that the message only
> affects users which use bridge netfilter as module and reword the
> message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>

Applied to net-next, thanks.
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diff --git a/net/bridge/br.c b/net/bridge/br.c
index 3addc05..889e564 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br.c
@@ -227,9 +227,11 @@  static int __init br_init(void)
 	br_fdb_test_addr_hook = br_fdb_test_addr;
 #endif
 
-	pr_info("bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been "
-		"deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you "
+#if IS_MODULE(CONFIG_BRIDGE_NETFILTER)
+	pr_info("bridge: filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables is no longer available "
+		"by default. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you "
 		"need this.\n");
+#endif
 
 	return 0;