From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>,
sachin sanap <sachin.sanap.1gb@gmail.com>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, buytenh@wantstofly.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: ebtables broken for kernel above 2.6.28
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:20:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A25191D.2030201@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0905291915490.12199@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Friday 2009-05-29 18:20, Bart De Schuymer wrote:
>
>> I think it's best to fix this in the kernel if it's possible, since we don't
>> want to break compatibility.
>> If the fix has to be in userspace, then it must be a fix that still works for
>> older kernels.
>
> Since the kernel uses xt_align already, it's best for userspace to do the same.
But that doesn't work for older kernels. Please don't dismiss
compatibility issues that easily. Sometimes things unfortunately
do slip through, but I expect people to do their best to fix the
problem properly when this happens.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-02 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <17923cc80905280124t4ed6cf7m87f91e4444146697@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <4A1EB783.4090801@pandora.be>
2009-05-29 5:51 ` Fwd: ebtables broken for kernel above 2.6.28 sachin sanap
2009-05-29 10:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-05-29 11:14 ` sachin sanap
2009-05-29 16:20 ` Bart De Schuymer
2009-05-29 17:16 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-02 12:20 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-06-05 13:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-05 13:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-14 17:42 ` Fwd: " Jan Engelhardt
2009-06-19 6:06 ` Sachin Sanap
2009-06-14 15:47 ` Peter Volkov
2009-06-14 16:54 ` Bart De Schuymer
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