Re: About a patch to unclean module.

[Fabrice MARIE <fabrice@celestix.com>]

Hello Maciej,

On Saturday 22 June 2002 03:00, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Hello,
> I may say now, that I have finished writing the module, updating the
> lipipt_unclean.c, I have created the patches to the netfilter tree.
> But, suppose, Harald applies the patch. It will change libipt_unclean.c
> in a way, that withougt running patch-o-matic it will not compile, because
> it uses an include file
> KERNEL_DIR/include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_unclean.h which will be only
> available after patching the kernel tree.
> So how do we solve that?

The easiest way is to use the userspace patching facility of patch-o-matic.
Just look at extra/ipt_REJECT-fake-source.patch and especially
extra/ipt_REJECT-fake-source.patch.userspace for an example of userspace
patching.

> I see it by adding ipt_unclean.h to the netfilter tree.
> Or maybe I am missing something or forgetting about something, some simple
> solution.
> Regards,
> Maciej Soltysiak

Have a nice day,

Fabrice.
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