From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reserve nfnetlink subsys ids.
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:08:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A324558.3020506@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0906112349380.30129@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
>>> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>>>> Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
>>>>> Hi Patrick,
>>>>>
>>>>> A tiny patch to add nfnetlink subsys ids for nftables and ipset. :-)
>> As I said, IDs are usually not reserved until something is merged,
>> even if there is agreement to merge it. I guess there has been too
>> much bad experience with reserved IDs and code that never got merged.
>> I have to justify the patches I merge myself and so far I can't.
>
> You're right, of course. I'm going to find another way for a smooth
> protocol migration.
I didn't mean to finally say no, just wondering if there are special
circumstances which would justify an exception.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-12 12:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-11 11:36 [PATCH] Reserve nfnetlink subsys ids Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-06-11 14:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-11 14:26 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-06-11 14:43 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2009-06-11 14:49 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-11 21:51 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-06-12 12:08 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2009-06-12 13:02 ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2009-06-12 13:07 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-06-12 13:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
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