[runme patch proposal for patch-o-matic dealing with the man page attached]

Hervé Eychenne wrote:

> - TTL target had nothing to do here, as it is in patch-o-matic.
>   Deleted for coherence. Maybe we could have a special manpage for
>   extra extensions, but as they are already documented in the
>   Netfilter Extensions HOWTO, it would seem to appear as a
>   duplicated effort.
>   I just added a note on the existence of this HOWTO.

May I propose we add manpage information to patch-o-matic. It should be 
possible to use the same kind of magics as for Configure.help..

  patchname.man[-X]

Where the first line is the existing line where the new documentation should 
be inserted.

Having the patch-o-matic extension you have applied documented in the 
iptables manpage you have installed as part of the same build process has 
great value I think.

The icky part, shared with .userspace, is that once you have applied pathes 
from your iptables source you will need to clean it up before patching 
another kernel source tree..

Regards
Henrik

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