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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: (pull) pending patches
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 14:42:38 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Monday 2009-03-16 14:39, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
>> We used to have ip_nat_range(_compat) for compatibility for that reason
>> IIRC. The kernel doesn't need anymore, so I think userspace should carry
>> a copy as long as ipt_SAME is still supported.
>>
> But that only makes it harder to keep files in sync :-/

There is nothing to keep in sync, ipt_SAME doesn't exist in the kernel
anymore. And a structure kept purely to maintain compatibility with old
kernels will obviously never change.