netdev - Re: [PATCH nf-next 0/4] netfilter: bridge: remove broute hook

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Date:   Fri, 12 Apr 2019 01:48:22 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc:     netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf-next 0/4] netfilter: bridge: remove broute hook

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 04:36:38PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> This series removes the 'broute' hook by promoting ebtables' broute table
> to a normal ebtables table (invoked via normal PREROUTING netfilter hook).
> 
> The downside is that nf_hook_slow() needs to be duplicated in br_input.c
> (see patch 3).
> 
> However, I think its worth the price as this allows to remove the
> br_should_route_hook.
> 
> There are quite some changes in bridge specific code, if you prefer
> I can re-submit this for net-next instead of nf-next.
> 
> Main motivation is to provide 'ebtables -t broute' functionality via
> nftables later on, this can then be done without touching the bridge
> or netfilter core infrastructure again.

Series applied, thanks Florian.