From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick McHardy Subject: Re: Fwd: ebtables broken for kernel above 2.6.28 Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:20:45 +0200 Message-ID: <4A25191D.2030201@trash.net> References: <17923cc80905280124t4ed6cf7m87f91e4444146697@mail.gmail.com> <4A1EB783.4090801@pandora.be> <17923cc80905282251s2ddc50a4n1a44a2b1e6b01cc5@mail.gmail.com> <17923cc80905290414r5caaaec9t8b6c4ce849c66175@mail.gmail.com> <4A200B60.6080804@pandora.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Bart De Schuymer , sachin sanap , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, buytenh@wantstofly.org To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from stinky.trash.net ([213.144.137.162]:38051 "EHLO stinky.trash.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751110AbZFBMUr (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Jun 2009 08:20:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.