Re: patch: Action repeat

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>]

* jamal <1115035838.8929.236.camel@localhost.localdomain> 2005-05-02 08:10
> I would say that if dummy changes it because of a policy, then thats a
> fair deal. i.e
> 
> filter blah blah \
> action add meta classid global :23 

Absolutely, given it is requested by the user. My main concern are
dependencies on classid invisble to the user.

> I am beginning to think that perhaps classid should stay as a local
> scope metadata and what Patrick suggested maybe the way out. Although i
> have to admit I dont like a generic function to have a parameter that
> only a very small set of users find useful. If we are going to allow a
> structure to be passed back and forth, perhaps it should also carry
> other things (in addition to _result). Need to think a little.

What about if we introduce something like struct tcf_pkt_info as we
have it for ematches? I'm using it intensly to share information
from the classifier to ematches to extend and customize existing
classifier. We could declare tc_classid as being global by definition
and hide the current use in the API? I'd really like to be able to
transfer classification results from one device to another.