From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mr Dash Four Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] ipset: change 'iface' part in hash:net,iface set Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 20:21:25 +0100 Message-ID: <4FF73AB5.4060502@googlemail.com> References: <4FF736FE.8030109@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik , Netfilter Core Team , Pablo Neira Ayuso , Patrick McHardy To: Jan Engelhardt Return-path: Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com ([74.125.82.44]:33699 "EHLO mail-wg0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755814Ab2GFTVe (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 15:21:34 -0400 Received: by wgbdr13 with SMTP id dr13so9596236wgb.1 for ; Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:21:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > The SO version is purely a userspace issue. Here, Joszef means the > user-kernel interaction; a too-old userspace ipset binary would not know > how to interpret a too-new kernel response which has IFACE set; and a > too-old kernel would not know how to read a too-new ipset request with > IFACE set. > If you look more careful at the patches I submitted yesterday, you will find out that the changes I have made to ipset (userspace) are negligible and have nothing whatsoever to do with the changes I have proposed in these patches. Whether one uses the old ipset (userspace) or the new one won't matter one jot for the purpose of these changes!