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Message-ID: <490705D3.4040809@trash.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:30:11 +0100
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
CC:	hamid jafarian <hamid.jafarian@...il.com>,
	Netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>,
	Eric Leblond <eric@....fr>,
	Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
	Amin Azez <azez@...mechanic.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/09]IPtablestng/Kernel - New Framework For IPtables

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 01:07:38PM +0100, Patrick McHardy (kaber@...sh.net) wrote:
>> I think these patches are a lost cause. Besides the fact that they
>> move things to the kernel instead of to userspace, they
> 
> What about part which replaces rules array with a list?
> That's the main part I was interested in though.

Thats also the part that breaks userspace compatibility and requires
to move a lot of userspace code to the kernel, at least in that
design. Its not possible to do this with iptables without breaking
userspace compability.

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