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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: Increasing XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN to 32
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:47:16 +0200
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 06:46:22PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Saturday 2012-09-29 17:53, Cong Wang wrote:
> 
> >Hi, netfilter experts,
> >
> >A customer wants to increase XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN to at least 31 (1
> >for '\0'), so I just increase it to 32. Do you have any comments or
> >objections for the following patch?
> 
> This is a no-no. You are breaking the ABI.

Agreed. Sorry Cong, you cannot do that.