From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] iproute: fix tc ipt/xt module. Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:09:38 -0500 Message-ID: <1259845778.3766.32.camel@bigi> References: Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Henriksson Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f192.google.com ([209.85.212.192]:42644 "EHLO mail-vw0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753821AbZLCNJf (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:09:35 -0500 Received: by vws30 with SMTP id 30so591962vws.33 for ; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:09:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 16:10 +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > The xtables API has changed since the tc xt module was written. > This mini-series moves the legacy stuff out of the way (kept for > compatibility with older iptables versions) and starts > a new fresh xt module. > > Hopefully the xtables api will be kept stable in the future. > If so, this new xt module should continue working since it only > uses exposed functions (unlike the old one which had an internal > header to access internal functions in xtables). > > Andreas Henriksson (3): > Keep the old tc/ipt/xt module for compatibility. > Add new (iptables 1.4.5 compatible) tc/ipt/xt module. > Slightly improve the configure script. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim Andreas, in the future can you CC me please - I dont read netdev in real time (sometimes i catch up in a month and skim over). cheers, jamal