From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
To: Sven Anders <anders@anduras.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org,
Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
Subject: Re: New iptables structure
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:45:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41AA38FD.5050805@eurodev.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41A85AC4.5080006@anduras.de>
Sven Anders wrote:
> Why not break compatibilty, if it hamper the development?
I don't see things that way, compatibility could be broken if all
developers get their brains broken or become insane because they aren't
able to workaround a problem. That didn't happen at the moment :)
> To prevent further incompatibility, you can insert some reserved
> fields to the main
> structure...
it's not that easy, you can't always guess where they will come from. So
we can't reserve a field in every structure.
I agree with Bart, backward compatibility is important.
--
Pablo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-28 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-25 4:49 [PATCH 1/2] ipt_MARK extension with backwards compatibility (kernel side) Rusty Russell
2004-11-26 22:58 ` Pablo Neira
2004-11-27 10:45 ` New iptables structure (was: [PATCH 1/2] ipt_MARK extension with backwards compatibilty...) Sven Anders
2004-11-27 14:14 ` Bart De Schuymer
2004-11-28 20:45 ` Pablo Neira [this message]
2004-11-29 12:27 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2004-12-07 21:20 ` [PATCH 1/2] ipt_MARK extension with backwards compatibility (kernel side) Pablo Neira
2004-12-08 5:44 ` Rusty Russell
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