From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Netfilter API and libiptc Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:13:29 +0100 Message-ID: <4993AFF9.9010002@trash.net> References: <20090205141722.GB21417@qubit> <4990636B.9080900@trash.net> <20090209183941.GA1050@zenon.in.qult.net> <4992E2B3.3030009@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer , Ignacy Gawedzki , Netfilter Developers To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:39845 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750703AbZBLFNf (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:13:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Wednesday 2009-02-11 15:37, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Jesper Dangaard Brouer wrote: >>> >>> Patrick, what do you say? >> Agreed on your reasoning. I don't have much of an opinion, we >> mainly tried to hide it because it was never suitable for anything >> else than a short "iptables ..." command because of memory leaks >> etc. I think we're a lot better with this nowadays, if we can >> get the worst remaining ones plugged and somewhat of a usable >> API we can certainly add it as a library. >> > I have the code ready, it is easily mergeable-and-revertible(*) too, but > let's wait with that because it currently relies on a certain revision > of Makefile.am (IOW: merge conflicts with nf). > > (*) That is, changing it from 'lib_LTLIBRARIES' to 'noinst_LTLIBARIES' > and it automatically becomes static wrt. the executables again. Oh I > love automake :) I'd prefer to wait until after the next release with this. We already have quite a few changes and missed the last release, so I want to start stabilizing a nice new release for 2.6.29 soon.