netdev - [0/10] Remove sk_buff ** from netfilter API

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Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2007 12:26:04 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hadi@...erus.ca,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru
Subject: [0/10] Remove sk_buff ** from netfilter API

On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 05:38:28PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> >From a quick look it seems at least IPv4 and IPv6 don't need to
> change the skb anywhere else. It seems to be necessary for
> bridging though to unshare the skb. OTOH br_netfilter.c already
> unshares the skb for IPv4 and IPv6, so we could simply do this
> unconditionally before calling the hooks.

Thanks.  I got bored and finally did the plunge :)

I've booted it here and it seems to work.

Cheers,
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