netfilter: remove messages print and boot/module load time

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: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Acked-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
index 733d3e4a30d8..03ead8a9e90c 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c
@@ -37,8 +37,6 @@ MODULE_ALIAS_NET_PF_PROTO(PF_NETLINK, NETLINK_NETFILTER);
 	rcu_dereference_protected(table[(id)].subsys, \
 				  lockdep_nfnl_is_held((id)))
 
-static char __initdata nfversion[] = "0.30";
-
 static struct {
 	struct mutex				mutex;
 	const struct nfnetlink_subsystem __rcu	*subsys;
@@ -580,13 +578,11 @@ static int __init nfnetlink_init(void)
 	for (i=0; i<NFNL_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++)
 		mutex_init(&table[i].mutex);
 
-	pr_info("Netfilter messages via NETLINK v%s.\n", nfversion);
 	return register_pernet_subsys(&nfnetlink_net_ops);
 }
 
 static void __exit nfnetlink_exit(void)
 {
-	pr_info("Removing netfilter NETLINK layer.\n");
 	unregister_pernet_subsys(&nfnetlink_net_ops);
 }
 module_init(nfnetlink_init);