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From: Pierre Rondou <prondou@gmail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, evyncke@cisco.com,
	guy.leduc@ulg.ac.be, Cyril Soldani <cyril.soldani@ulg.ac.be>
Subject: Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL missing in the kernel?
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:05:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDCFE92.1040003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1105242323290.2691@frira.zrqbmnf.qr>

Le 24/05/11 23:32, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :
> On Tuesday 2011-05-24 17:42, Pierre Rondou wrote:
>    
>> The little complain about NATIVI
>> (http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg18248.html) was
>> that no kernel/Xtables developers told me they wanted the module
>> inside the kernel/Xtables
>>      
> But they did not say "don't want" either :)
>
> Sorry, I must have skipped over that mail somehow. It's still in
> my inbox, so that means the topic had not been closed.
>
> The only other "excuse" I can give is that, on a closer look now, the
> mail did not contain a merge request, just an offer for help.
> (Wording: "If you believe that this module can be included is the
> Linux Kernel or in the Xtables-addons framework, I'll be glad and
> will help you in this task.")
>
> If you, or somebody else, wants to have it merged, in either the
> kernel or Xtables-addons, please send in a patch, and we will discuss
> it from there on.
>    

Ok, I didn't know how adding kernel functionalities works actually...
I'll propose a patch to get it added on current dev kernel a bit later 
(gotta finish writing my thesis first).

>    
>> While I'm sending you an e-mail, I may contribute to your very interesting
>> "Writing Netfilter modules" ebook.
>>      
> If you replace .pdf in the URL by .lyx, you can get at the source
> of the document and make a patch against that if you like.
> Other ways to convey your additions are also acceptable - it
> is not required to be diff.
>    

Ok, I'll send you a patch or something like that after I finished the 
writing of my thesis.

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      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-25 13:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 13:03 EXPORT_SYMBOL missing in the kernel? Pierre Rondou
2011-05-24 13:40 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-24 13:48   ` Pierre Rondou
2011-05-24 14:41     ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-24 15:42       ` Pierre Rondou
2011-05-24 21:32         ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-05-25 13:05           ` Pierre Rondou [this message]

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