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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] xt_mark match rev 1
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:25:48 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Introduce the xt_mark match revision 1. It uses fixed types,
> with the goal of obsoleting revision 0 some day (uses nonfixed types).


I don't know. We already have all this compat crap because
we specifically don't want to obsolete old userspace binaries,
so the only benefit I see is a minor decrease in overhead
when loading rules.