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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] libnl: add netfilter support
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 13:13:08 +0200
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Thomas Graf wrote:
> * Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> 2007-09-03 12:53
> 
>>That looks pretty much like a list of attributes, but
>>using different attribute types. Just out of interest:
>>do you have a pointer to code doing this?
> 
> 
> Yes, see tcf_action_dump().


Right, I remeber, the entire "action order" thing. Thats a
horrible hack IMO, probably best to convert it to real lists
if possible.

> OTOH, netlabel is making heavy use of attribute lists but
> the type is constant to allow for automatic policy validation.
> I think this is the proper way of generating lists.


Fully agreed, thats also what I did in the 8021q netlink
interface.