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From: Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo@zacarias.com.ar>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] iptables: fix userspace compilation of ip tables with C++
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:24:34 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54516922.1070306@zacarias.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141029223413.70abc05b@free-electrons.com>

On 10/29/2014 06:34 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Dear Matt Weber,
> 
> On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:12:43 -0500, Matt Weber wrote:
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Matt Weber <matthew.weber@rockwellcollins.com>
>> ---
>>  ...ix-userspace-compilation-of-ip_tables_c_h.patch |   43 ++++++++++++++++++++
>>  1 file changed, 43 insertions(+)
>>  create mode 100644 package/iptables/iptables-03-fix-userspace-compilation-of-ip_tables_c_h.patch
> 
> This patch apparently dates back from 2012. Why has it never been
> merged upstream? Also, I don't really understand the interaction
> between the kernel headers, and this include/linux/ header in iptables.
> 
> Has the problem been reported upstream to iptables?
> 
> Gustavo, an opinion?

It was posted to lkml & linux-netdev at first, Davem told to post to
netfilter-devel. That was done:

http://marc.info/?t=134904906300003&r=1&w=1

The logic seems right, C++ is more strict and triggers the issue.
It's an issue when dealing with netfilter rules from custom C++ code.

But it seems to have been rejected without much explanation:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/188216/

Regards.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-29 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-13 19:12 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] iptables: fix userspace compilation of ip tables with C++ Matt Weber
2014-10-29 21:34 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-10-29 22:24   ` Gustavo Zacarias [this message]
2014-10-30  0:48     ` Matthew Weber
2014-11-18 13:48       ` Matthew Weber
2014-11-18 17:56         ` Yann E. MORIN

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