netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] netfilter: preparatory patches for set extensions

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Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	pablo@...filter.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, tgraf@...g.ch,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] netfilter: preparatory patches for set extensions

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 15:38:08 +0000

> These patches contain some prepraration for nftables set extensions.
> These extensions will allow to attach dynamically sized data to set
> elements, thereby moving the key to a non-fixed position.
> 
> This requires nft_hash to use the rhashtable callbacks. Since the
> key length is variable, the length must be provided to the obj_hashfn.
> 
> The patches change rhashtable to do so and do a conversion of nft_hash
> to rhashtable callbacks without any functional changes.
> 
> @Dave and Pablo: these patches apply on top of nf-next and a bunch
> of patches I just sent to Pablo, but also need Herbert's recent
> changes in net-next. Additionally I have more patches coming up
> which depend on these changes. In order to simplify things, I'd
> suggest to have the rhashtable change go through Pablo's tree if
> you don't mind.

Pablo can take this stuff, no problem.
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