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Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> Hi.  I decided to take on the challenge of updating the manpages.  I figured 
>> that probably everything in base, pending, and submitted that wasn't already 
>> in the manpages should be updated.
>
> please be careful.  The manpages should only contain stuff which is actually
> contained in the mainstream kernel.
>
> There are lots of patches in patch-o-matic which will most likely never be
> submitted to the kernel [e.g. due to their experimental nature].
>
> Those extensions should be documented in the netfilter-extensions-howto.

Doesn't it make a little bit of sense to require the patch to update
the manual if the extension is chosen? We are only talking about a
paragraph and a heading, all of which could be added to a subsection
using a simple template. I'm sure that there would be no shortage of
volunteers to implement this.

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