From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Cc: Hasan Chowdhury <shemonc@gmail.com>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>,
Yury Stankevich <urykhy@gmail.com>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
pablo@netfilter.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] iproute2: temporary solution to fix xt breakage
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:12:03 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121217081203.3dc324c8@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50CF1071.1050405@mojatatu.com>
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 07:30:41 -0500
Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com> wrote:
> On 12-12-16 03:41 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> >
> > There is an "intermediate solution" from Hasan which doesnt require
> > the kernel change. It changes the kernel endpoint to "ipt". I am
> > conflicted because it is a quick hack while otoh forcing people to
> > upgrade kernel is a usability issue.
> >
>
>
> Attached. Author is Hasan - I didnt sign it because i am looking for
> feedback and i find it distasteful but it solves the problem.
> This is needed until we have a proper fix in the kernel propagated.
> Once that kernel change is ubiquitous this change is noise and a
> maintanance pain. I am making it hard to even turn it on
> (i.e someone knowledgeable will have to compile with CONFIG_XT_HACK)
>
> cheers,
> jamal
>
>
Maybe xtables should have stable API/ABI and use shim routines there?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-17 16:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <50C4821D.5090206@gmail.com>
[not found] ` <50C9B4BB.9060609@mojatatu.com>
2012-12-15 21:19 ` tc ipt action Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-15 23:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 0:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 0:32 ` [PATCH] build: unbreak linkage of m_xt.so Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 10:30 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 17:03 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 17:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 18:05 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 22:02 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-12-18 17:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-18 18:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-12-20 0:03 ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-12-16 10:22 ` tc ipt action Jamal Hadi Salim
[not found] ` <CAASe=fQT2pVOK0uctdaKL+aOrF8nYeTMfoF15kmd-rC02+7Vnw@mail.gmail.com>
2012-12-16 16:48 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 18:59 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 19:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 20:36 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 20:41 ` [PATCH] iproute2: act_ipt fix xtables breakage Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-17 12:30 ` RFC [PATCH] iproute2: temporary solution to fix xt breakage Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-17 16:12 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2012-12-19 11:36 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
[not found] ` <CAASe=fRuJdtisEvp7uo=PHwN3nKHqsYDW4Om1gk2MK-vyNvBrA@mail.gmail.com>
2012-12-18 12:28 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
[not found] ` <CAASe=fR6Hm2dxp=1wDchtrzqnaH6qacHpg2wrsqLfmGpPbQ9Fg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-12-19 11:44 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-19 11:56 ` [PATCH] pkt_sched: act_xt support new Xtables interface Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-19 15:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-19 23:05 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
[not found] ` <CAASe=fQZGwjM_2PStRE0tje33Doi6TuwJJ3p7x-SRcwq3mQvRg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-12-19 23:00 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-20 8:54 ` Yury Stankevich
2012-12-20 12:35 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-20 14:59 ` Yury Stankevich
2012-12-21 13:03 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-21 13:13 ` Yury Stankevich
2012-12-21 13:50 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-21 14:14 ` Yury Stankevich
2012-12-22 13:19 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-22 13:43 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-22 13:56 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-22 13:58 ` Yury Stankevich
2012-12-22 14:04 ` Florian Westphal
2012-12-22 14:09 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-24 11:34 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-24 11:49 ` Felix Fietkau
2012-12-24 12:19 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-24 13:12 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-24 14:05 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-24 18:19 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-26 23:10 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-21 14:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-21 15:45 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-22 13:42 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 0:27 ` tc ipt action Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-12-16 0:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 10:43 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 17:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 17:47 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 18:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-16 20:35 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 21:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-17 12:58 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-17 13:28 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-18 13:23 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-18 13:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2012-12-19 11:43 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2012-12-16 10:26 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
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