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From: Pablo Neira <pablo@eurodev.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix wrong order in event notification
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 18:06:16 +0200
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Hi Sam,

Amin Azez wrote:
> I want to "backport" this patch to 2.6.11.7 (before IPS_DYING was
> invented to help shrink the conntrack struct)
> 
> The obvious fixup is below, I just wanted to check that it was safe, and
> that sending the event earlier instead of during death by timeout wasn't
> also depending on side effects of IPS_DYING

ctnetlink is already in the Linus tree, so it will be out in the next
kernel release. Because of that, I don't think that it's worth applying
that patch to the event API in pom-ng. We should focus on what is in
mainline.

--
Pablo