• Pablo Neira Ayuso's avatar
    netfilter: remove messages print and boot/module load time · e5531166
    Pablo Neira Ayuso authored
    Several reasons for this:
    
    * Several modules maintain internal version numbers, that they print at
      boot/module load time, that are not exposed to userspace, as a
      primitive mechanism to make revision number control from the earlier
      days of Netfilter.
    
    * IPset shows the protocol version at boot/module load time, instead
      display this via module description, as Jozsef suggested.
    
    * Remove copyright notice at boot/module load time in two spots, the
      Netfilter codebase is a collective development effort, if we would
      have to display copyrights for each contributor at boot/module load
      time for each extensions we have, we would probably fill up logs with
      lots of useless information - from a technical standpoint.
    
    So let's be consistent and remove them all.
    Acked-by: default avatarFlorian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
    Acked-by: default avatarJozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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