netdev - Re: [PATCH rfc] netfilter: two xtables matches

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Message-ID: <20121207072249.GA10911@1984>
Date:	Fri, 7 Dec 2012 08:22:49 +0100
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>
Cc:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>,
	netfilter-devel <netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rfc] netfilter: two xtables matches

On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 04:12:10PM -0500, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 09:00:36PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> On Wednesday 2012-12-05 20:28, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> >>
> >> >Somehow, the first part of this email went missing. Not critical,
> >> >but for completeness:
> >> >
> >> >These two patches each add an xtables match.
> >> >
> >> >The xt_priority match is a straighforward addition in the style of
> >> >xt_mark, adding the option to filter on one more sk_buff field. I
> >> >have an immediate application for this. The amount of code (in
> >> >kernel + userspace) to add a single check proved quite large.
> >>
> >> Hm so yeah, can't we just place this in xt_mark.c?
> >
> > I don't feel this belongs to xt_mark at all.
> 
> Do you have other concerns, or can I resubmit as is for merging in a
> few days if no one raises additional issues?
> 
> For this and netfilter changes in general: should these patches be
> against git://1984.lsi.us.es/nf-next instead of net-next? This patch
> likely applies cleanly there, but I haven't tried yet. Thanks.

Please, against nf-next since this has to go throuh the netfilter
tree.
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