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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nf_tables: add chain to pktinfo structure
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 01:56:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161128005649.GA17749@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1480291244-3666-1-git-send-email-pablo@netfilter.org>

Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> This patch adds the chain object to the pktinfo structure. This
> potentially allow us to know what basechain this packet is walking over
> from the expression evaluation path.

... for what?  Why...?

Its not clear to me why these changes are made.  Same for patch #2.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-11-28  0:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-28  0:00 [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nf_tables: add chain to pktinfo structure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-11-28  0:00 ` [PATCH nf-next 2/2] netfilter: nf_tables: add numeric expression type definitions Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-11-28  0:56 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2016-11-28  8:44   ` [PATCH nf-next 1/2] netfilter: nf_tables: add chain to pktinfo structure Pablo Neira Ayuso
2016-11-28 10:32     ` Florian Westphal
2016-11-28 11:27       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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