From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E61C8C0650F for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2D4F206E0 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:38:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729292AbfG3Ois (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:38:48 -0400 Received: from Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc ([193.142.43.52]:42928 "EHLO Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727077AbfG3Ois (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:38:48 -0400 Received: from fw by Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hsTH5-0004WW-Af; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:38:47 +0200 From: Florian Westphal To: Subject: [RFC 0/2] typeof keyword, alternate patch Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:37:30 +0200 Message-Id: <20190730143732.2126-1-fw@strlen.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.21.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Similar idea to Pablos approach, similar drawbacks. It can be used First patch is to make it easier to later on handle concatenations, maps and the like -- it will retain the proper length so you can have maps that e.g. return 'ct helper' or 'osf name' values. Don't know yet when I can work on this again, I will comment on Pablos patch set soon.