Commit a3c47977 authored by Patrick McHardy's avatar Patrick McHardy Committed by David S. Miller

[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: default avatarPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 807467c2
......@@ -241,3 +241,12 @@ Why: Orphaned for ages. SMP bugs long unfixed. Few users left
Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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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>
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......@@ -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
......
......@@ -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
......
......@@ -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
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