Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: add cluster match

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> Unrelated to this patch, but maybe the target would also be
>>> better named "NAT" instead of the much more generic term "mangle".
>>> Why is it using lower case letters btw?
>> No idea who has done this,
> 
> Lowercasing targets was the original author's (Bart De Schuymer's)
> deed ;-)
> 
> I have nothing against lowercase targets, in fact, many a user seems
> to so not get case-sensitity right — “INPUT” vs. “input” (built-in
> chain names), “MASQUERADE” vs. “masquerade” (targets), to name some —
> that I would support lowercasing all targets...— if it were not for
> the clash between MARK (target) and mark (match), for example.
> Though, calling one of them “mark_m” or underscore-something to avoid
> the clash however, is what I dislike in favor of uppercasing target
> names.

Its actually just exposing an implementation detail of how match
and target modules are located on the filesystem. The meaning
(match or target) can be deduced from "-j" and "-m".
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