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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, arturo.borrero.glez@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH nft v2 3/3] src: add xt compat support
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 01:59:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150409235916.GA6449@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150409234504.GE13473@acer.localdomain>

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:45:05AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
[...]:
> I want this decision to be made based on what users actually need and
> on what they need it for. Not basically pull in everything from iptables
> in one go without even thinking about it.
> 
> As a middle ground, I think I could agree to adding the xt compat
> framework, but only allow selective extensions to be used where we
> are sure we need them.

The framework fully supports this, imposing an artificial limitation
makes no sense to me at all.

And more importantly, without this patch nft breaks when users
load their ruleset throught iptables-compat-restore.

With that artificial limitation, some rulesets will break, some other
not.

Admit it, there is no way we can control what users will do in the
future. The only way out is to move forward in an evolutionary
fashion.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-09 23:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-09 16:55 [PATCH nft v2 1/3] include: cache ip_tables.h, ip6_tables.h, arp_tables.h and ebtables.h Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 16:55 ` [PATCH nft v2 2/3] src: expose delinearize/linearize structures and stmt_error() Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 16:55 ` [PATCH nft v2 3/3] src: add xt compat support Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 20:36   ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 20:51     ` Florian Westphal
2015-04-09 22:34       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 22:36         ` Florian Westphal
2015-04-09 22:56           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 23:23             ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:40               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 23:45                 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:59                   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2015-04-10  0:05                     ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-10  0:26                       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-10  0:33                         ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:22           ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:21         ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-09 23:44           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 23:48             ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-10  0:07               ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-10  0:11                 ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-10  0:36                   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-10  0:36                     ` Patrick McHardy
2015-04-10  1:00                       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 22:33     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-04-09 23:18       ` Patrick McHardy

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