From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: ipt_physdev.c alignment problems on parisc64 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 18:16:03 -0700 Sender: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20030916181603.366b7c06.davem@redhat.com> References: <200309022116.41697.bdschuym@pandora.be> <200309132159.37834.bdschuym@pandora.be> <20030915155903.12a3f95d.davem@redhat.com> <200309160805.08171.bdschuym@pandora.be> <20030915230259.79f5a545.davem@redhat.com> <1063703910.5948.85.camel@henrik.marasystems.com> <20030916140918.GF810@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hno@marasystems.com, bdschuym@pandora.be, acme@conectiva.com.br, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Harald Welte In-Reply-To: <20030916140918.GF810@obroa-skai.de.gnumonks.org> Errors-To: netfilter-devel-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:09:18 +0200 Harald Welte 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.