netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2 nf-next] net: bridge: don't register netfilter call

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Message-ID: <d6c03eac-ce32-4728-85cf-2c385613a7df@email.android.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Sep 2014 21:31:33 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
CC:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2 nf-next] net: bridge: don't register netfilter call_iptables hooks by default

On 18. September 2014 15:35:52 MESZ, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org> wrote:

>Unless I'm missing anything, I think br_netfilter should have been a
>separated module since the beginning. 

Yeah absolutely. Basic rule: don't impose the costs of your cool new feature on all the people who will never need it.

Great someone finally fixes this up. Long term we still need a sane design for this though, some direct way of bridging to interact with conntrack, nftables provides for the rest.

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