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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List <netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH */3] several messages
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:18:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45BA29CA.9040305@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701261701520.22295@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Did you pick up this question:
> 
> BTW, ip_nat_rule.c <-> nf_nat_rule.c seems to be an almost identical
> copy. Schedule one for removal?

ip_nat and all related code will be removed in 2.6.22.

> There is yet more to xt-ify, like (just look at all the #defines ip xt 
> in linux/netfilter_ipv4/ip_tables.h and ip6_tables.h). However, I was 
> not sure if some of the macros actually do get used by userspace code. 
> Mind filling me in?

Basically anything outside of #ifdef __KERNEL__ needs to stay around
for userspace, at least for now. Long term I would prefer to make
userspace not use any headers from the kernel tree directly.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-26 16:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-25 21:12 [patch */3] some xtables changes Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-25 21:14 ` [patch 1/3] Fix return values for LOG and ULOG Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-26 14:03   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-25 21:45 ` [patch 2/3] some xtables changes (xt_match,xt_target) Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-26 14:17   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-25 22:15 ` [patch 3/3] some xtables changes (xt_table) Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-26 14:21   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-01-26 16:05     ` [PATCH */3] several messages Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-26 16:18       ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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