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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Tomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [nftables-kernel PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: Fixes how a table is checked to be in use
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 12:48:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130904104832.GA8799@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5225E354.4090000@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 04:25:40PM +0300, Tomasz Bursztyka wrote:
[...]
> What's the use case for it? I mean: knowing that the table is in
> use, I can see some use case (and it could be done much simpler).
> The number of chains, not really. At least right now, nothing is
> using it so what could be the future need for that?
> Same for chains actually.

We need that use counter for iptables-nftables for chains. See xtables
-L for non-base chains.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-04 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-30  9:43 [nftables-kernel PATCH] netfilter: nf_tables: Fixes how a table is checked to be in use Tomasz Bursztyka
2013-08-30 22:37 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2013-09-03 13:25   ` Tomasz Bursztyka
2013-09-04 10:48     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2013-09-04 11:51       ` Tomasz Bursztyka

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