From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Cc: hno@marasystems.com, bdschuym@pandora.be, acme@conectiva.com.br,
netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: ipt_physdev.c alignment problems on parisc64
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:16:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030916181603.366b7c06.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030916140918.GF810@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org>
On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:09:18 +0200
Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:18:34AM +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > tis 2003-09-16 klockan 08.02 skrev David S. Miller:
> >
> > unfortunately iptables does not allow such differences between userspace
> > and kernel representation..
>
> yes. yes. yes. The whole 'kernel internal data structure exported to
> userspace' is a fundamental design flaw of iptables. There's nothing we
> can do about it, we'll have to live with it :(
Why can't you change this?
Just because the user gives the kernel the data in one format, this
does not at all prevent the actual iptables kernel implementation from
using some other structure to store the data. You just have to translate
things on the way in and out, that's all.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-17 1:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 14:30 ipt_physdev.c alignment problems on parisc64 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-02 19:16 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-02 20:03 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-04 3:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-05 15:31 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-09 2:14 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-13 19:59 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-14 2:25 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-15 22:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16 6:05 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-16 6:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16 9:18 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-09-16 14:09 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-17 1:16 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-17 21:17 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-19 2:48 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-20 11:32 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-20 16:05 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-22 0:53 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16 14:06 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-16 15:15 ` Tom Marshall
2003-09-16 15:57 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-17 1:23 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-17 6:42 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-17 6:56 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-12 1:40 ` jamal
2003-09-12 8:56 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-12 10:56 ` Oskar Andreasson
2003-09-12 12:56 ` jamal
2003-09-12 13:55 ` Oskar Andreasson
2003-09-12 12:54 ` jamal
2003-09-20 5:50 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-21 13:57 ` ppp ifindex WAS(Re: " jamal
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