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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH lnf-queue] api: add nfq_nlmsg_get_timestamp helper
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 10:46:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130828084652.GJ32493@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130826225325.GA4695@localhost>

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 05:07:17PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> > The NFQA_TIMESTAMP structure is in network byte order, so it seems
> > appropriate to add a helper to convert it to a timeval struct.
[..]

> I think we can update nfq_get_timestamp to use libmnl without breaking
> backward compatibility. Same thing with all other getter functions
> that we have.

How did you plan to do this without breaking api/abi?

To call the existing libnfnetlink based function given an libmnl attr[] array
you need to:

struct nfq_data d;
d.data = (void **) &attr[1];
nfq_get_timestamp(&d, &tv);

Which is just "ewww".

      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-28  8:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-22 15:07 [PATCH lnf-queue] api: add nfq_nlmsg_get_timestamp helper Florian Westphal
2013-08-26 22:53 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-08-28  8:46   ` Florian Westphal [this message]

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