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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 -next] netfilter: conntrack: remove timer from ecache extension
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:14:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140328111440.GA12728@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140328111031.GG21741@breakpoint.cc>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:10:31PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > >  I'm mainly interested if you think timer removal is worthwile,
> > >  it works well in practice from usability POV.
> > 
> > Thanks for looking again into this. We definitely have to get rid of
> > that timer.
> > 
> > Regarding the new flag, perhaps we can avoid exposing this to
> > userspace? I mean, we can define some mask of internal flags that we
> > don't include via dump_status in ctnetlink.
> 
> What is your rationale for supressing this information?
> [ or, why is exposing this to userspace bad? ]

I think that flag provides no useful information to userspace.

> Is it so we don't have to keep dummy flag when we find a different
> solution later?

Right, that's another good reason not to expose that information to
userspace.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-28 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-27 18:00 [PATCH -next] netfilter: conntrack: remove timer from ecache extension Florian Westphal
2014-03-28 10:32 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-03-28 11:10   ` Florian Westphal
2014-03-28 11:14     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2014-03-28 13:09       ` Florian Westphal

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