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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 nf-next] netfilter: meta: add support for setting skb->pkttype
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 13:07:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151218120736.GA2606@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151214172642.GA1365@salvia>

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 06:26:42PM +0100, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> We may keep going with the existing approach, ie. just raw data with
> no semantics, then if we decide to go this path, to retain backward
> compatibility, we would need to pass two data attributes through
> netlink: one with the raw data and another with the specific datatype
> so older kernels keep handling what userspace generates.

I working on a RFC patchset that should cover these concerns above,
but I think that new infrastructure is too much for this specific
case.

So I'm reconsidering this, I'm going to apply this patch.

Thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-18 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-10 17:04 [PATCH V2 nf-next] netfilter: meta: add support for setting skb->pkttype Florian Westphal
2015-12-14 11:45 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-12-14 13:38   ` Florian Westphal
2015-12-14 17:26     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2015-12-18 12:07       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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