Re: Netfilter API and libiptc

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2009-02-11 15:37, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote:
>>>
>>> Patrick, what do you say?
>> Agreed on your reasoning. I don't have much of an opinion, we
>> mainly tried to hide it because it was never suitable for anything
>> else than a short "iptables ..." command because of memory leaks
>> etc. I think we're a lot better with this nowadays, if we can
>> get the worst remaining ones plugged and somewhat of a usable
>> API we can certainly add it as a library.
>>
> I have the code ready, it is easily mergeable-and-revertible(*) too, but 
> let's wait with that because it currently relies on a certain revision 
> of Makefile.am (IOW: merge conflicts with nf).
> 
> (*) That is, changing it from 'lib_LTLIBRARIES' to 'noinst_LTLIBARIES' 
> and it automatically becomes static wrt. the executables again. Oh I 
> love automake :)

I'd prefer to wait until after the next release with this. We already
have quite a few changes and missed the last release, so I want to
start stabilizing a nice new release for 2.6.29 soon.