Re: [iptables PATCH 0/3] Extract nftnl_rule parsing code

[Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 07:40:11PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote:
> nft-shared.c was already oversized, upcoming enhancement of the
> nftnl_rule parser will add to that. So prepare any further work in that
> field by creating a common 'nft-ruleparse.c' source and one for each
> family to hold all the parsing code (basically the stack below
> nft_rule_to_iptables_command_state).
> 
> Collect the existing expression parsing callbacks in a new struct
> nft_ruleparse_ops and add a pointer to it into nft_family_ops. This way
> the callbacks may be static and the nft-ruleparse-<family>.c sources
> only export their ops object.
> 
> This series does things somewhat gradually:
> 
> * First pull everything from nft-shared.c into nft-ruleparse.c (likewise
>   with header files)
> * Then perform the *_ops struct changes which should not have a
>   functional implication
> * Finally weed parsers from nft-<family>.c files into
>   nft-ruleparse-<family>.c ones.

Series applied after rebasing it onto current HEAD - the previous
arptables-related fixes caused a minor conflict.