From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Richard Cai <cy@microembed.cn>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: port netfilter on linux 2.6 back to linux 2.4
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:52:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E071F8.9090804@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E05311.2010701@microembed.cn>
Richard Cai wrote:
> hello everyone:
> I'm developing an embedded firewall router. For some reasons I
> can only use uClinux 2.4 now. But the 2.6 kernel is more advanced and
> there are more resources about the linux 2.6 netfilter than 2.4. My
> product will upgrade to 2.6 next year. Do you think I SHOULD port the
> linux 2.6 netfilter frame work back to linux 2.4 to have more resources
> and support?
I wouldn't advise that, the changes between 2.4 and 2.6 are huge and
partially depend on changes in the remaining networking stack. Even
backporting features between minor versions is not always easy ..
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-14 12:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-14 3:21 port netfilter on linux 2.6 back to linux 2.4 richard
2006-08-14 10:40 ` Richard Cai
2006-08-14 12:52 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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