Re: NF structural changes (was: dangerous?)

[Amin Azez <azez@ufomechanic.net>]

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>   
>> Right. Of course this is a problem. To that end, I can really only say
>> that a divide needs to be made someday.
>>     
>
> I totally disagree. iptables has tons of problems, I'm guessing that
> a year from now we will have a successor. Breaking compatibility at
> this point in its lifetime is not acceptable, especially on such a
> fundamental level. 
quite likely we will come to that conclusion but our discussion might 
result in private patches that don't hit the kernel.
> I really wish people would stop wasteing time
> trying to redesign iptables, its just not worth it.
>   
maybe, but it looks so promising coming from a position of wasting time 
trying to work with it :-)
- and you know it's so much more fun to tweak someone elses work than 
start from scratch...

Sam