From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] netfilter updates: nf_tables pull request Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:23:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20131017.152302.168119302436570514.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1381768738-17739-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: pablo@netfilter.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:46292 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758877Ab3JQTXS (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:23:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1381768738-17739-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Pablo Neira Ayuso Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:38:41 +0200 > The following patchset contains the current original nf_tables tree > condensed in 17 patches. I have organized them by chronogical order > since the original nf_tables code was released in 2009 and by > dependencies between the different patches. ... > There is still work to do to fully replace x_tables [4] [5] but that can > be done incrementally by extending our netlink API. Moreover, looking at > netfilter-devel and the amount of contributions to nf_tables we've been > getting, I think it would be good to have it mainstream to avoid accumulating > large patchsets skip continuous rebases. > > I tried to provide a reasonable patchset, we have more than 100 accumulated > patches in the original nf_tables tree, so I collapsed many of the small > fixes to the main patch we had since 2009 and provide a small batch for > review to netdev, while trying to retain part of the history. > > For those who didn't give a try to nf_tables yet, there's a quick howto > available from Eric Leblond that describes how to get things working [6]. > > Comments/reviews welcome. This looks great, pulled, thanks a lot!!