From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: [PATCH] iproute2 : fix to catchup with xtables/iptables >= 1.4.2 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:25:35 +0100 Message-ID: <497DB9CF.6060408@trash.net> References: <1232908352.13279.33.camel@dogo.mojatatu.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Henriksson , Yevgeny Kosarzhevsky , Jan Engelhardt , Denys Fedoryschenko To: hadi@cyberus.ca Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:43791 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751212AbZAZNZj (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:25:39 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1232908352.13279.33.camel@dogo.mojatatu.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: jamal wrote: > Sorry for the long CC (copying all stakeholders) > > Against latest iproute2 git - fixes breakage found with debian and > certainly with any distro using iptables 1.4.2. > > A small depart from the old ipt - to keep in sync with iptable/xtables > changes. The old ipt should continue to work for iptables <1.4.1. And > with this change, no old scripts will break. > > [Breakage will happen again (probably by the time we hit iptables 1.4.3) > because xtables is still a moving target. There are quiet a few > functions which really should be part of xtables but are currently not - > I have labelled them in tc/m_xt.c]. libxtables.so is pretty incomplete, the best thing would be if you'd move everything you need there so we can avoid any breakage in the future.