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From: Tomasz Bursztyka <tomasz.bursztyka@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [nftables tool v2 PATCH 2/4] src: Ensure given base chain type
 is a valid one
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:29:38 +0300
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Hi Pablo,

>> It verifies at command line parsing that given type is "filter", "nat",
>> >or "route".
> The kernel will just bail out if we pass an invalid chain type.

Sure, however I thought it would be nice to avoid one useless kernel 
call. (and the error is still possible to locate at that point)

Tomasz