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Date:	Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:23:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pablo@...filter.org
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] netfilter updates: nf_tables pull request

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:38:41 +0200

> The following patchset contains the current original nf_tables tree
> condensed in 17 patches. I have organized them by chronogical order
> since the original nf_tables code was released in 2009 and by
> dependencies between the different patches.
 ...
> There is still work to do to fully replace x_tables [4] [5] but that can
> be done incrementally by extending our netlink API. Moreover, looking at
> netfilter-devel and the amount of contributions to nf_tables we've been
> getting, I think it would be good to have it mainstream to avoid accumulating
> large patchsets skip continuous rebases.
> 
> I tried to provide a reasonable patchset, we have more than 100 accumulated
> patches in the original nf_tables tree, so I collapsed many of the small
> fixes to the main patch we had since 2009 and provide a small batch for
> review to netdev, while trying to retain part of the history.
> 
> For those who didn't give a try to nf_tables yet, there's a quick howto
> available from Eric Leblond that describes how to get things working [6].
> 
> Comments/reviews welcome.

This looks great, pulled, thanks a lot!!
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