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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Question: Variable sized matchinfo
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 13:14:30 +0100
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Hi.

I want to write a match where it would be nice to pass a variable sized 
matchinfo to kernelspace.
Is this possible ? I want to avoid always using the largest possible 
values (2^16 + a few bytes).
The data in question is a bpf program compiled with pcap_compile ..
This is probably not the most useful match but i think it beats u32 
because bpf syntax is already well-known
and very pleasant to use.

Regards,
Patrick