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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] [NETFILTER]: rename NF_ARP to NFPROTO_ARP and assign a non-clashing value
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:10:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47FD6917.7070109@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0804091930191.3866@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2008-04-09 19:05, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>> I would have been going for NFPROTO_ now, with a translation
>>> table for use for things like the xfrm code.
>> We need to keep the INET/INET6 values identical anyway,
>> so there no need for translation here.
> 
> The problem is with non-IP,non-IPv6 that passes through xfrm.
> That is, if IPX can get xfrmd at all, probably does.

It doesn't. We also don't support IPX, this is IMO a non-issue
that can be discusses once IPX gains IPSEC support (aka never).

>>> Should I change all AF_INET6 to NFPROTO_ in the same run
>>> (i.e. mostly xt_[A-Za-z]*.c), or leave it as is?
>> If we introduce those values, they should be used everywhere.
>>
> That would amount to a huge patch (perhaps I split to make it feasible).

I have no problems taking a huge sed patch if it
makes sense.



  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10  1:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-08 15:31 [PATCH 1/8] [NETFILTER]: Rename ipt_recent to xt_recent Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 2/8] [NETFILTER]: xt_recent: IPv6 support Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 12:48   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 13:30     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 13:44       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:48         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 3/8] [NETFILTER]: rename NF_ARP to NFPROTO_ARP and assign a non-clashing value Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 12:52   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 13:09     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:12       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 13:17         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:21           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 13:34             ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:42               ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 13:48                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:51                   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 13:59                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 14:30                       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 14:39                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 14:57                           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 15:12                             ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 15:15                               ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 16:31                                 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 16:35                                   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 16:46                                     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 16:50                                       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 16:59                                         ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 17:05                                           ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 17:38                                             ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-10  1:10                                               ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-04-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 4/8] [NETFILTER]: Implement AF_UNSPEC as a wildcard for extensions Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 5/8] [NETFILTER]: Give AF-independent extensions an arpt_ alias Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 6/8] [NETFILTER]: Make Ebtables use Xtables infrastructure Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 13:08   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 13:12     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 16:52     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-10 20:11     ` Bart De Schuymer
2008-04-10 20:52       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-13  5:24         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 7/8] [NETFILTER]: Collapse tcpmss_reverse_mtu{4,6} into one function Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-15 12:51   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-15 13:57     ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-15 13:59       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-04-08 15:31 ` [PATCH 8/8] [NETFILTER]: Deploy a prefix_length-to-network mask mapping table Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 12:45 ` [PATCH 1/8] [NETFILTER]: Rename ipt_recent to xt_recent Patrick McHardy
2008-04-09 12:50   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-04-09 12:53     ` Patrick McHardy

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