From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add new (iptables 1.4.5 compatible) tc/ipt/xt module. Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 08:58:41 -0800 Message-ID: <20091202085841.1c37f49f@nehalam> References: <59840ae567f82d81e66367eddea56553e0771e5f.1259765732.git.andreas@fatal.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Henriksson Return-path: Received: from mail.vyatta.com ([76.74.103.46]:53264 "EHLO mail.vyatta.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754611AbZLBQ6r (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:58:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <59840ae567f82d81e66367eddea56553e0771e5f.1259765732.git.andreas@fatal.se> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:11:50 +0100 Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Add a new cleaned up m_xt.c based on m_xt_old.c > The new m_xt.c has been updated to use the new names and new api > that xtables exposes in iptables 1.4.5. > All the old internal api cruft has also been dropped. > > Additionally, a configure script test is added to check for > the new xtables api and set the TC_CONFIG_XT flag in Config. > (tc/Makefile already handles this flag in previous commit.) > > Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson Will this still build on older versions? The iproute source is supposed to build even with really old kernels and older iptables. It has maintained source and binary compatibility. --