Backwards-compatible /proc and sysctl conntrack entries

[Josh Boyer]

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 12:52 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:03 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >> It looks like we need to enable this option. See:
> >>
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=232742
> >>
> >> So we need to set this:
> >>
> >> CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT=y
> > 
> > For how long?  I'm wondering why the application can't be fixed
> > instead...
> 
> Users also have firewall configuration scripts that rely on these
> entries.

Damn.  That does suck.

So how long does upstream intend to keep CONFIG_NF_CONNTRACK_PROC_COMPAT
around?

josh