Hello,
On Monday 25 February 2002 16:47, Harald Welte wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 11:15:32PM +0800, Fabrice MARIE wrote: > > You will find attached a patch to runme that allows > > patches to userspace/ directory. It's especially useful > > to keep compatibility when you introduce a difference > > in the match/target info that is passed from userspace > > to kernelspace. It will test if the patch apply cleanly > > before applying it, just like pom use to do with the > > kernel patches. > That sounds interesting. Thanks for this contribution. > As for 2.5.x we should integrate a versioning mechanism. Like having a > version number included in all matches and targets. > The iptables2 commandline tool would then read out the version information > for all used matches/targets in the command and request the plugin to > produce a stuct ipt_entry for version X of state match, version Y of > REJECT, ... > I will add this to the iptables2 TODO list. Sounds very nice for the developement flow. btw, do you guys have a formal design document or anything more than what we discussed in the netfilter workshop in Enschede ? Just curious :) > Hopefully I will ever find the time to implement all this stuff... If you come up with some documents to guide/document contributer could probably help you develop that. > > Hope that helps, > I will apply it to CVS now. If you haven't done it already, we should > write some WARNING into the .patch.help file. Will change that now. Thanks. Have a nice day, Fabrice. -- Fabrice MARIE Senior R&D Engineer Celestix Networks http://www.celestix.com/ "Silly hacker, root is for administrators" -Unknown
