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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
Cc: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [nft PATCH 4/7] cli: Use nft_run_cmd_from_buffer()
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 14:15:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171020121534.GD4068@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171019081847.16171-5-phil@nwl.cc>

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:18:44AM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> This simplifies CLI code and allows to reduce libnftables API by not
> exporting nft_run().
> 
> Since nft_run_cmd_from_buffer() takes care of scanner initialization and
> libmnl socket passed to cli_init() is present as nft_ctx field as well,
> signature of cli_init() can be reduced to just take nft_ctx pointer as
> single argument.

libmnl socket is indeed in nft_ctx, but we're planning a mode that
allows to expose the mnl_socket for advanced handling. In that
scenario, nft->nf_sock will be null.

So I would prefer we don't do changes that we have to undo once the
advanced API is in place.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-20 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-19  8:18 [nft PATCH 0/7] libnftables preparations Phil Sutter
2017-10-19  8:18 ` [nft PATCH 1/7] nft_ctx_free: Fix for wrong argument passed to cache_release Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 12:01   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-19  8:18 ` [nft PATCH 2/7] libnftables: Move library stuff out of main.c Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 12:12   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-20 17:02     ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 19:08       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-19  8:18 ` [nft PATCH 3/7] libnftables: Introduce nft_ctx_flush_cache() Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 12:13   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-20 17:05     ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 19:10       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-20 21:00         ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-19  8:18 ` [nft PATCH 4/7] cli: Use nft_run_cmd_from_buffer() Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 12:15   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2017-10-20 17:10     ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 19:18       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-20 21:05         ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-19  8:18 ` [nft PATCH 5/7] libnftables: Introduce nft_ctx_set_dry_run() Phil Sutter
2017-10-19  8:18 ` [nft PATCH 6/7] libnftables: Provide an API for include path handling Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 12:17   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-20 17:16     ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 19:16       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-20 21:12         ` Phil Sutter
2017-10-19  8:18 ` [nft PATCH 7/7] libnftables: Add remaining getters and setters Phil Sutter
2017-10-20 12:18   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2017-10-20 16:08     ` Phil Sutter

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