Re: ipt_recent misuses jiffies? misreports oldest_pkt too

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Grant Coady wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:46:54 +0200, Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
> 
>> Indeed, its completely useless information. Actually I don't see
>> much use for anything in that proc file, but again, I kept it for 
>> compatiblity.
> 
> Twice you mention compatibility, should I plan on a replacement so the 
> old code can be deprecated over time?  The proc file is useful for 
> external timebase process to remove stale IPs or inject IPs for service 
> quota limiting.  (At least, I can see a use for it that way).

The tree I pointed to includes a port of ipt_recent to IPv6 and
adds a new proc file for that. So you could just fix it for the
new proc file, that avoids all compatibility issues.

>> Please base your patches on
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-next-2.6.git
> 
> Yeah, me git-challenged ;) got to figure out how to make two trees 
> (this and kernel) play together?  Got the git dribbling in at all of 
> 3k/s (900k objects). 

Its a full tree, so you can simply compile and boot that one.
Or you can pull it into an existing clone of Linus' tree.