From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Amos Jeffries Subject: Re: patch-o-matic problems..? Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:05:03 +1200 Message-ID: <48871E6F.4050302@treenet.co.nz> References: <935fab200807221736k5c95037fgac0eac3e1e4915b2@mail.gmail.com> <48871C77.5060503@netfilter.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <48871C77.5060503@netfilter.org> Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > Dave wrote: >> I have to agree with these guys, the whole POM and Xtables things is >> extremely confusing to the newbies. > > Indeed. IMO they should not exist anymore. > > With regards to POM(-ng) - I cannot talk about the other project since > it is not supported by the Netfilter Project itself - it was something > that we needed during the 2.4 days, since we could not add new features > to the kernel that quickly. However, with the new 2.6 development cycle, > features can get into kernel faster. So if you need some feature or some > contibution into mainline, go and ask for it. Of course, it must suit > the standards and it must be an interesting contribution to what we > already have. On the other hand, you may also get the reason why it is > not in mainline yet. > > Well, Anyway I think that we've already discussed about this in a long > thread [1]. > > [1] http://marc.info/?l=netfilter&m=121484288209802&w=2 > Could the netfilter team at least publish something along the lines of: POM(-ng) is now being deprecated. There is another independent project run by X over at U which performs a replacement service ... AYJ