Re: [PATCH nf-next 1/6] netfilter: nf_tables: extend tracing infrastructure

[Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:27:07AM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > Do you think we can place all this new netlink code in
> > net/netfilter/nf_tables_trace.c ? So we leave in the core file only
> > our classifier engine.
> > 
> > I like the attribute definition rename in nf_tables.h, but this code
> > we can probably place it away from here.
> 
> Ok, I'll see if this is doable without exporting half a dozen of
> symbols.

If you place this in this core, we should need to export any symbol.

nf_tables-objs += nf_tables_core.o nf_tables_api.o nf_tables_trace.o

And I would expect probably only functions to enable/disabling tracing
and to notify the trace via netlink.

Let me know, thanks.