From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>,
Victor Julien <lists@inliniac.net>,
Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards@gmail.com>,
netfilter@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Keep the "state" match as alias [Re: state match is obsolete 1.4.17]
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:28:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130118002818.GA19003@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1301151820230.12091@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Hi Jozsef,
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 06:28:11PM +0100, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
>
> > With passing one more internal flag, indicating that the "state" alias is
> > used, the "conntrack" module can remain completely hidden and the user can
> > list/save exactly the same command as the issued one.
>
> Here follows the patch which introduces match module aliases (the same can
> be done for targets as well). The alias is handled as it were a real
> extension while it's actually handled by another module. Listing/saving
> keeps the alias name and options.
>
> The "state" extension is the first example of such an alias.
I like this symmetrical aliasing approach.
The aim is to get rid of redundant things in the kernel. And with
this, we can get that without disturbing users.
Would you do the same for the NOTRACK target?
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-18 0:28 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <CAMD-=V+PhM3NLpWyxB0G4KUN6D+-XKL0PZCBAuyUXUw56gmuJw@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <alpine.LNX.2.01.1301150958390.16853@nerf07.vanv.qr>
[not found] ` <50F5273F.5020205@inliniac.net>
2013-01-15 10:06 ` state match is obsolete 1.4.17 Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-01-15 12:06 ` Born Without
2013-01-15 12:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-01-15 13:22 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-01-15 13:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-01-15 14:49 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-01-15 17:28 ` [PATCH]: Keep the "state" match as alias [Re: state match is obsolete 1.4.17] Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-01-18 0:28 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2013-01-22 21:47 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-01-22 21:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2013-01-23 9:06 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-01-23 3:03 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-01-23 9:00 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-01-23 10:08 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
[not found] ` <CAMD-=V+p0gv+amQearBpGPD0q3zALUEfQj6xCoTTg197jN3_5A@mail.gmail.com>
2013-01-16 0:11 ` state match is obsolete 1.4.17 Jan Engelhardt
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