From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/6] doc: minor improvements with respect to the term “ruleset”
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:04:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aPX7Ly8FcFTW8RE3@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251019014000.49891-3-mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name> wrote:
> Statements are elements of rules. Non-terminal statement are in particular
> passive with respect to their rules (and thus automatically with respect to the
> whole ruleset).
>
> In “Continue ruleset evaluation”, it’s not necessary to mention the ruleset as
> it’s obvious that the evaluation of the current chain will be continued.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <mail@christoph.anton.mitterer.name>
> ---
> doc/nft.txt | 6 +++---
> doc/statements.txt | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/nft.txt b/doc/nft.txt
> index 78dbef66..49fffe2f 100644
> --- a/doc/nft.txt
> +++ b/doc/nft.txt
> @@ -932,9 +932,9 @@ actions, such as logging, rejecting a packet, etc. +
> Statements exist in two kinds. Terminal statements unconditionally terminate
> evaluation of the current rule, non-terminal statements either only
> conditionally or never terminate evaluation of the current rule, in other words,
> -they are passive from the ruleset evaluation perspective. There can be an
> -arbitrary amount of non-terminal statements in a rule, but only a single
> -terminal statement as the final statement.
> +they are passive from the rule evaluation perspective. There can be an arbitrary
> +amount of non-terminal statements in a rule, but only a single terminal
> +statement as the final statement.
This is not really ideal as its hard to see what changes.
I will apply this like this:
-they are passive from the ruleset evaluation perspective. There can be an
+they are passive from the rule evaluation perspective. There can be an
... as its much simpler to see the actual change without any of the
formatting changes.
No need to re-send this patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-20 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-25 0:07 nft manpage/wiki issues and improvement ideas Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-25 7:35 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2025-09-25 20:37 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-26 1:52 ` [PATCH 0/7] doc: miscellaneois improvements Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-26 1:52 ` [PATCH 1/7] doc: clarify evaluation of chains Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-26 1:52 ` [PATCH 2/7] doc: fix/improve documentation of verdicts Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-30 10:50 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-02 14:50 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-02 15:21 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-10 23:06 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-26 1:52 ` [PATCH 3/7] doc: minor improvements with respect to the term “ruleset” Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-26 1:52 ` [PATCH 4/7] doc: add overall description of the ruleset evaluation Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-30 11:50 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-10 23:07 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-26 1:52 ` [PATCH 5/7] doc: add some more documentation on bitmasks Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-30 11:51 ` Florian Westphal
2025-09-30 11:53 ` Florian Westphal
2025-09-26 1:52 ` [PATCH 6/7] doc: describe include’s collation order to be that of the C locale Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-26 1:52 ` [PATCH 7/7] doc: describe how values match sets Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-09-26 2:32 ` nft manpage/wiki issues and improvement ideas Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-11 0:23 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] doc: miscellaneous improvements Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-11 0:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] doc: clarify evaluation of chains Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-15 11:46 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-11 0:23 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] doc: fix/improve documentation of verdicts Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-15 11:42 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-17 2:30 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-18 13:25 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-19 0:11 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-11 0:23 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] doc: minor improvements with respect to the term “ruleset” Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-15 11:51 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-11 0:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] doc: add overall description of the ruleset evaluation Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 9:39 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-20 23:48 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-11 0:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] doc: add some more documentation on bitmasks Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-18 13:32 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-19 1:31 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-11 0:24 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] doc: describe include’s collation order to be that of the C locale Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-18 13:35 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-18 22:13 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-11 0:24 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] doc: describe how values match sets Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-18 13:51 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-19 1:50 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-19 1:38 ` [PATCH v3 0/6] doc: miscellaneous improvements Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-19 1:38 ` [PATCH v3 1/6] doc: fix/improve documentation of verdicts Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 9:28 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-20 22:13 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-19 1:38 ` [PATCH v3 2/6] doc: minor improvements with respect to the term “ruleset” Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 9:04 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2025-10-19 1:38 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] doc: add overall description of the ruleset evaluation Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-19 1:38 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] doc: add more documentation on bitmasks and sets Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 9:06 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-20 21:57 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 22:18 ` Florian Westphal
2025-10-20 23:51 ` Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-19 1:38 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] doc: describe include’s collation order to be that of the C locale Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-19 1:38 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] doc: minor improvements the `reject` statement Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 23:49 ` [PATCH v4 0/5] doc: miscellaneous improvements Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 23:49 ` [PATCH v4 1/5] doc: fix/improve documentation of verdicts Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 23:49 ` [PATCH v4 2/5] doc: add overall description of the ruleset evaluation Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 23:49 ` [PATCH v4 3/5] doc: add more documentation on bitmasks and sets Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 23:49 ` [PATCH v4 4/5] doc: describe include’s collation order to be that of the C locale Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-20 23:49 ` [PATCH v4 5/5] doc: minor improvements the `reject` statement Christoph Anton Mitterer
2025-10-22 14:34 ` Florian Westphal
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