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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Stephane Chazelas <stephane@artesyncp.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [bug+patch] SCTP and chunk types over 0x1f
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:58:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <467FCA13.5050401@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070625135040.GV20467@artesyncp.com>

Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:40:27PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>>>- the chunkmap, which is a bitmap of which chunk is selected is
>>>  defined as an array of 256 / 4 u32s, that is 256 * 8 bits,
>>>  256 / 32 is enough (256 bits).
>>
>>
>>We can't change that since it breaks userspace compatibility.
> 
> 
> I see. But that doesn't look very tidy. Maybe some transitional
> code with a warning in both the kernel and iptables?


We could add a new revision, but still need to keep the old
structure for old binaries. Doesn't seem worth it for this
minor waste of space.


>>Could you please resend without the chunkmap changes? Thanks.
> 
> 
> That's just a matter of removing the first change:


Does it stay completely compatible (modulo fixed bugs) then?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-25 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-22 15:19 [bug+patch] SCTP and chunk types over 0x1f Stephane Chazelas
2007-06-25 13:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-25 13:50   ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-06-25 13:58     ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-06-25 14:08       ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-06-25 14:15         ` Stephane Chazelas
2007-06-25 14:42           ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-25 15:07             ` Stephane Chazelas

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