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Message-ID: <CAK-LDbLQXFtg7S6aQCJiTdt5VmTEx9MWEziD+VEkjKHBx+CL5g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 31 Jul 2015 07:33:20 +0530
From:	Vaishali Thakkar <vthakkar1994@...il.com>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: Add helper macro for xt_match boilerplate

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 05:27:37PM +0530, Vaishali Thakkar wrote:
>> For simple modules that contain a single xt_match without any
>> additional setup code then ends up being a block of duplicated
>> boilerplate. This patch adds a new macro, module_xt_match(),
>> which replaces the module_init()/module_exit() registrations with
>> template functions.
>
> I prefer not to use this macro, we may need to add something to the
> module_init()/module_exit() path in the future to these netfilter
> extensions and then we'll have to revert the follow up conversions
> patches that you will likely send.

Ok. This makes sense. I think in that case you can drop the patch.

Thank You.

> Thanks anyway.



-- 
Vaishali
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