From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] note owner match brokenness
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:30:06 +0200
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Phil Oester wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:09:37PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>  
>
>>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.
>  
>

Agreed, I'm going to apply your patch. Thanks.

Regards
Patrick