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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: nf_inet_address
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:54:17 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Dec 5 2007 18:24, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> And the name doesn't really match. I'd prefer to type for all of
>>> netfilter and then have conntrack use that one.
>>>
>> About nf_inet_addr; does any userspace program depend on 
>> nf_conntrack_address? If so, I would have to add some #defines to remain 
>> compat.
> 
> Oh and also, if we can actually do that. Because if xt_FOOBAR
> starts using
> 
> 	struct xt_foobar_target_info {
> 		union nf_inet_addr blubb;
> 	};
> 
> we may not change nf_inet_addr beyond its current size...
> I hope that is ok for this century, given it is already 128 bits.


Thats seems OK.