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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Re: [PATCH 2.4.37] iptables: handle IPT_RETURN from
 	user target]
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:23:20 +0100
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To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
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Changli Gao wrote:
> I posted this patch before. I am glad to see someone has the same
> requirement as me. It is useful when implementing ACL. Such as these
> statements:
> 
> if (x_cond) {
>    do_x;
> } else if (y_cond) {
>   do_y;
> } else if (z_cond) {
>   do_z;
> }
> 
> Because the current iptables doesn't support multi-targets, we have to
> do this kinds of things in a dirty way.

We don't add changes that are not needed in the mainline kernel itself.
I'm not interested in this change until someone also posts a patch to
actually make use of it.