On 27 July 2016 at 04:17, Florian Westphal <[email protected]> wrote: > During NFWS we discussed reducing the number of keywords in nftables. > > Obviously keywords are required for the parser to know what to expect. > > But always requiring the 'meta' keyword would allow us to handle > iif, oif, iifname etc without defining them in the scanner, i.e. we > could later use 'meta STRING' and resolve/map the keyword at run time > based on the meta template pseudo-header. > > Note that this change does not yet reject 'iif eth0', this only makes > nft always print the 'meta' keyword when listing and updates the test > cases as required. > > Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <[email protected]>
If we are to break the syntax sooner or later, I would ask to be as soon as possible. -- Arturo Borrero González -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
