From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [libnftnl PATCH] set: add helper to get the first set_elem
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:04:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140415080432.GA15759@macbook.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140415075842.18544.32525.stgit@nfdev.cica.es>
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 09:58:42AM +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> Add a helper that returns a pointer to the first set_elem in a given set.
>
> This function is useful in situations where you know the set only have one
> element (ie, event reporting from the kernel).
That doesn't seem right to me. As I said in my review of the notification
patch, userspace *must* be prepared for multiple elements being reported
at once since it is very likely that we will change the kernel side in
the future for efficiency reasons.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-15 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-15 7:58 [libnftnl PATCH] set: add helper to get the first set_elem Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2014-04-15 8:04 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2014-04-15 8:11 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-04-15 8:44 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
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