From: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] note owner match brokenness
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:12:51 -0700
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On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:09:37PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Phil Oester wrote:
> 
> >Someone recently complained in bugzilla that the note about owner
> >match being broken on SMP took hours to find because it was in
> >syslog instead of userspace.  Hopefully the below patch will
> >save others some time.
> >
> >This closes bugzilla #244
> >
> If we warn in userspace, we should warn when then options are used
> instead of in the helptext.

Agreed, but do we want to:

   1) warn on every single use of owner match?
   2) have iptables determine if we are running on an SMP box, and
      only warn in that case?

I didn't think either of these were terribly appealing.

Phil