Re: Avoiding multiple calls to xt_target.checkentry

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Adam Nielsen wrote:
>>> Thanks for the explanation!  So - to get it straight in my mind - the
>>> checkentry function will be called multiple times while the trigger
>>> exists,
>>> but is the destroy function also called multiple times?  Or is checkentry
>>> called whenever tables are created, but destroy only ever called once
>>> when the
>>> table is removed for the last time?
>> They will always be called an equal amount of times - each one
>> once per target instance.
> 
> Great, thanks for the info (thanks Jan too!)  I'm working on a patch so I'll
> post it when I think I've solved the issue correctly.

Just wondering whether there's still hope for this issue to get fixed.

I haven't added the LED extension to iptables yet, so if there's no
interest in fixing this, we can remove the LED target again.