Re: [PATCH nft] netlink: meta: fix wrong type in attributes

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:25:59PM +0000, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 04:48:05PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > > We segfault on 'list filter' when meta expr is used as _u8
> > > returns invalid register 0.
> > 
> > This seems to only affect the master branch. Not sure how many people
> > are using that and if its worth doing a new release. I'd rather merge
> > the next-3.14 branch and have people use that.
> 
> Please, go ahead with that.

Done.

> > On a side note: there's no reason to have our releases timed after
> > kernel releases. At this point I'd rather go for more frequent releases
> > of the current code instead of backporting fixes.
> 
> We can probably point to the nftables git snapshots from the website
> and make the releases when we consider that there a good number of
> relevant changes/fixes to make an announce.

Yeah, we can switch to a different model once things have calmed down
a little. Probably still should aim for a new release by 3.14, maybe
earlier, so people can use the new stuff.