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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/24] [NETFILTER]: Implement AF_UNSPEC as a wildcard
 for extensions
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:21:26 +0200
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> When a match or target is looked up using xt_find_{match,target},
> Xtables will also search the AF_UNSPEC module list. This allows for
> extensions to be reused from other components (e.g. arptables,
> ebtables).
> 
> Extensions that take different codepaths depending on match->family
> or target->family of course cannot use AF_UNSPEC within the
> registration structure (e.g. xt_pkttype).

I'm skipping this patch until we've sorted out the AF_ARP thing.