From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: port netfilter on linux 2.6 back to linux 2.4
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:52:08 +0200
Message-ID: <44E071F8.9090804@trash.net>
References: <20060814032115.3C0FC3683C8@mail3.edong.com>
	<44E05311.2010701@microembed.cn>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Return-path: <netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org>
To: Richard Cai <cy@microembed.cn>
In-Reply-To: <44E05311.2010701@microembed.cn>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.netfilter.org/mailman/listinfo/netfilter-devel>,
	<mailto:netfilter-devel-request@lists.netfilter.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: </pipermail/netfilter-devel>
List-Post: <mailto:netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>
List-Help: <mailto:netfilter-devel-request@lists.netfilter.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.netfilter.org/mailman/listinfo/netfilter-devel>,
	<mailto:netfilter-devel-request@lists.netfilter.org?subject=subscribe>
Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org
Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org
List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org

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 ..