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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH lnfct-ct 1/2] conntrack: snprintf: add labels in hex representation by default
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 02:19:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130621001949.GA9580@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130620222058.GK2124@breakpoint.cc>

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 12:20:58AM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > I'm not sure about the utility of this without the translation to
> > strings.
> 
> OK, no objections.  Lets just drop it until a use case shows up.

Thanks. In my experience, it's just better not to add a new interface
whose use case is unclear rather than adding it and wait for people to
(ab)use it.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-21  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 20:54 [PATCH lnfct-ct 1/2] conntrack: snprintf: add labels in hex representation by default Florian Westphal
2013-06-18 20:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] conntrack: snprintf: add connlabel format specifier Florian Westphal
2013-06-20 11:50   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-06-20 22:31     ` Florian Westphal
2013-06-21  0:32       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-06-20 11:34 ` [PATCH lnfct-ct 1/2] conntrack: snprintf: add labels in hex representation by default Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-06-20 22:20   ` Florian Westphal
2013-06-21  0:19     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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