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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: "Remy D. Farley" <one-d-wide@protonmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 5/6] doc/netlink: nftables: Add getcompat operation
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Remy D. Farley <one-d-wide@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Remy D. Farley <one-d-wide@protonmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml
> index 4b1f5b107..ce11312b9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml
> +++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nftables.yaml
> @@ -1509,6 +1509,31 @@ sub-messages:
>  operations:
>    enum-model: directional
>    list:
> +    -
> +      # Defined as nfnl_compat_subsys in net/netfilter/nft_compat.c
> +      name: getcompat
> +      attribute-set: compat-attrs
> +      fixed-header: nfgenmsg
> +      doc: Get / dump nft_compat info

Whats the intent here?  nft_compat isn't used by nftables, this
is iptables-nft compatibility glue.