From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Subject: Re: [ULOGD 04/15] Add IFI list Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:56:25 +0100 Message-ID: <47A4F519.4020203@netfilter.org> References: <20080202204826.267107164@astaro.com> <20080202205107.726859754@astaro.com> <47A4E258.2060907@netfilter.org> <87zluj81uc.fsf@kruemel.eitzenberger.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: heitzenberger@astaro.com, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Holger Eitzenberger Return-path: Received: from mail.us.es ([193.147.175.20]:54374 "EHLO us.es" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755797AbYBBW4j (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 Feb 2008 17:56:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87zluj81uc.fsf@kruemel.eitzenberger.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Holger Eitzenberger wrote: > Pablo Neira Ayuso writes: > >> AFAICS, this file implements something similar to the ifname2index API >> which lives in libnfnetlink. Why don't you that instead? See the >> utils/iftest.c file under libnfnetlink for an example. > > The version of libnfnetlink I used initially did not have that, nor > would I ever expect for libnfnetlink to provide that functionality. libnfnetlink provides that since July 2007 because other libraries, such as libnetfilter_queue need such feature. There was a discussion way back and I decided to it there. > So I would leave it as-is in order to be able to build ulogd against > older librarires. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers