From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Netfilter Development Mailinglist
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: next iptables release
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:55:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C24EC7.3020402@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0903191444090.27642@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2009-03-19 13:55, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Besides potentially confusing people (why doesn't it work despite me
>> doing everything the manpage says), what are the advantages of including
>> the manpage before the actual implementation?
>>
>
> It does not confuse people as much as you think, I would say.
> Since iptables runs with kernels so old the dust could kill,
> the scenarios where iptables has an .so file for a kernel piece
> that did not exist yet back then are numerous.
>
Object files are a completely different questions. We've had tons of crap
in there for unmerged patches that we did later merge and had to change
the API, which caused "breakage" for people.
So that is out of the question anyways. And a manpage for something that
isn't even present will either not get noticed or confuse people. Its not
useful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-19 13:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-19 8:31 next iptables release Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 10:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 10:06 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 10:13 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 11:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 12:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 12:51 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-19 12:55 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 13:10 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-19 13:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 13:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 13:56 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 13:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 13:55 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-03-19 14:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-03-19 14:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-20 13:24 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-03-20 14:25 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-19 13:55 ` [PATCH] iptables: avoid compile warnings for iptc_insert_chain Christoph Paasch
2009-03-23 12:51 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-21 14:46 ` next iptables release Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2009-03-23 13:09 ` Patrick McHardy
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-24 11:19 Patrick McHardy
2009-11-24 15:07 Jan Engelhardt
2009-11-24 15:13 ` Patrick McHardy
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