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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] xtables: use guarded types
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:43:35 +0100
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On 03/12/10 20:13, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> parent b880c1f077000956b9f475d5f3b6c5e45ff2e342 (v2.6.37-rc1-241-gb880c1f)
> commit 4826151aedbe6e364b7b801f026fbe7383904b6a
> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
> Date:   Thu Dec 2 21:01:17 2010 +0100
> 
> netfilter: xtables: use guarded types
> 
> We are supposed to use the kernel's own types in userspace exports.

What's the point to have different headers in the kernel source code
tree and iptables? They are just a copy, I think it's fine to keep them
in sync with the kernel.