From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reserve nfnetlink subsys ids. Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:08:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4A324558.3020506@trash.net> References: <4A310FF4.2070207@trash.net> <4A31142E.50707@netfilter.org> <4A31198F.7010004@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: Jozsef Kadlecsik Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:43588 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753277AbZFLMI6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:08:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >>> Patrick McHardy wrote: >>>> Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote: >>>>> Hi Patrick, >>>>> >>>>> A tiny patch to add nfnetlink subsys ids for nftables and ipset. :-) >> As I said, IDs are usually not reserved until something is merged, >> even if there is agreement to merge it. I guess there has been too >> much bad experience with reserved IDs and code that never got merged. >> I have to justify the patches I merge myself and so far I can't. > > You're right, of course. I'm going to find another way for a smooth > protocol migration. I didn't mean to finally say no, just wondering if there are special circumstances which would justify an exception.