From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: "Maciej Żenczykowski" <zenczykowski@gmail.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] add xtables-multi{32,64} recognition
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 09:32:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAD3A99.2010608@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTinbg_38zymRyTvpXZ1zcms76G1L1w@mail.gmail.com>
On 19.04.2011 09:29, Maciej Żenczykowski wrote:
>> What is the purpose of this?
>
> Unfortunately not every 64-bit kernel version has had fully functional
> 32 bit backwards compatibility with userspace. As such, it is
> sometimes necessary to ship a 32-bit userspace iptables for 32-bit
> kernels and a 64-bit binary for 64-bit kernels - sometimes in the same
> OS image.
>
> The way I've done this is ship both binaries, one named *32 and one
> *64 and then have a launcher at * launch the appropriate one for the
> running kernel.
>
> To be fair, these kernels are pretty old at this point, OTOH, the
> patch is rather trivial and harmless.
Sure, but if you upgrade iptables on those systems, you can simply
replace the wrapper script. I don't think it makes much sense to
put this into the upstream version to handle compatibility for your
specific case.
The other patches look good to me.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-19 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-19 1:22 Patches: don't call modprobe, ipv4/ipv6 flag support, xtables-multi unification Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 1:23 ` [PATCH 1/5] Don't load ip6?_tables module when already loaded Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 7:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-04-19 7:10 ` [PATCH] " Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 7:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-04-19 1:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add --ipv4/-4 and --ipv6/-6 support to ip6?tables{,-restore} Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 7:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-04-19 7:32 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 7:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-04-19 1:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] Move common parts of libext{4,6}.a into libext.a Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 1:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] combine ip6?tables-multi into xtables-multi Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 1:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] add xtables-multi{32,64} recognition Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 7:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2011-04-19 7:29 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-19 7:32 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2011-04-19 7:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-04-19 8:55 ` Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-20 1:44 ` Patches: don't call modprobe, ipv4/ipv6 flag support, xtables-multi unification Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-20 1:44 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add --ipv4/-4 and --ipv6/-6 support to ip6?tables{,-restore} Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-20 1:44 ` [PATCH 2/3] Move common parts of libext{4,6}.a into libext.a Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-20 1:44 ` [PATCH 3/3] combine ip6?tables-multi into xtables-multi Maciej Żenczykowski
2011-04-21 9:16 ` Patches: don't call modprobe, ipv4/ipv6 flag support, xtables-multi unification Patrick McHardy
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