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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [NETFILTER]: xt_socket: rename from xt_owner
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:54:56 +0100
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> commit 7ed2d25d54b696074c8e787a03a1513d245e8caa
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
> Date:   Mon Jan 21 13:34:48 2008 +0100
> 
>     [NETFILTER]: xt_socket: rename from xt_owner
>     
>     xt_owner matches against the ownership of a socket. Currently this
>     only work in the output path when skb->sk is set. I recalled tproxy's
>     xt_socket, which does an explicit socket for the input path and
>     thought that this could be useful for xt_owner. Both modules would
>     then do a lookup, so let's just combine the code into one module.
>     
>     This patch renames xt_owner to xt_socket; the tproxy bits and input
>     path socket lookup will be added when tproxy gets merged.


This seems unnecessary. We can consider the rename once tproxy
gets merged, but things are progressing very slowly.