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Date:	Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:03:31 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] [NETFILTER] xt_policy.c: kill some bloat

David Miller wrote:
> From: "Ilpo_Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:34:27 +0200
> 
> Ilpo, please post netfilter patches to netfilter-devel,
> CC:'ing Patrick McHardy.
> 
> Patrick, please review, thanks.

This looks fine to me, thanks Ilpo.

>> net/netfilter/xt_policy.c:
>>   policy_mt | -906
>>  1 function changed, 906 bytes removed, diff: -906
>>
>> net/netfilter/xt_policy.c:
>>   match_xfrm_state | +427
>>  1 function changed, 427 bytes added, diff: +427
>>
>> net/netfilter/xt_policy.o:
>>  2 functions changed, 427 bytes added, 906 bytes removed, diff: -479
>>
>> Alternatively, this could be done by combining identical
>> parts of the match_policy_in/out()

That would probably end up rather ugly because they walk
over different structures and have some minor differences.

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