Re: xtables Re: Hacking iptables 1.3.5 for 2.6.17

[Sam Liddicott <sliddicott@dbamsystems.com>]

Amin Azez wrote:
> Yasuyuki KOZAKAI wrote:
>   
>> As you says, netfilter_ipv4.h in 2.6.17.x has unnecessary
>> '#include <config.h>' outside of __KERNEL__. But it seemd to be deleted
>> in recent kernel as follows.
>>
>>     
>>> commit 62c4f0a2d5a188f73a94f2cb8ea0dba3e7cf0a7f
>>> Author: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
>>> Date:   Wed Apr 26 12:56:16 2006 +0100
>>>
>>>     Don't include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/
>>>
>>>     Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> 
>>>       
>> I don't think/know that this goes to stable tree, though.
>>     
>
> Thanks; thats helpful and also solves a long-standing puzzlement for me.
> (Into my quilt stack it goes)
>
> Next question relates to the port to xtables and friends, and what I
> need to do to convert iptables targets.
>
> I notice a lot of things have moved to net/netfilter/xt_*.c
>
> Is this an absolute requirement, or is there some compatability system?
>   
Sorry for this foolish question; I have the answer just by diffing what
is left in net/ipv4/netfilter/ with earlier kernels
please forgive my laziness.

Sam