From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] the overdue removal of ip{,6}_queue Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:14:13 +0200 Message-ID: <443D4375.2060105@trash.net> References: <20060409180105.GK8454@stusta.de> <44395505.1070608@trash.net> <20060411090139.GI5167@rama.linbit> <443BC06A.8020103@trash.net> <20060411182624.GD31616@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Adrian Bunk , coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, jmorris@namei.org, Netfilter Development Mailinglist Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:44470 "EHLO stinky.trash.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932306AbWDLSQw (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:16:52 -0400 To: Harald Welte In-Reply-To: <20060411182624.GD31616@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Harald Welte wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:42:50PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>I think we need to do two things: >> >>- make libipq_compat a drop-in replacement that doesn't require >> recompilation > > > libipq is not distributed as a shared library (at least not by us), so I > don't see any purpose for doing so. Do you think anyone is going to > re-link statically linked code against the new lib I wasn't aware of that. That makes it even worse, old applications will break and we can't do anything about it. I think this is normally considered not acceptable.