In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 01:02:32AM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
I wonder if there has been some thought to what happens to e.g. a GUI
config tool when new options to an iptables module are added. Will there
be a
On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 01:02:32AM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:36:05PM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
I think that the user-space modules should provide much richer version
information than a simple
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 09:33:15PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
but what is the use of userspace versioning if the kernel doesn't have
version information? The userspace would still not know which version
of the structure to use when inserting rules to the kernel.
Yes, but that's a
In addition to what others have already pointed out, even if you know
what modules are available in user and kernel space, you also need to
know what each version of these is present, and whatever is talking to
all of this has to have detailed knowledge of the relative capabilities
of each
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:36:05PM -0400, Zygo Blaxell wrote:
I think that the user-space modules should provide much richer version
information than a simple version number. Simple version numbers are
useless if there are multiple maintainers each extending the code in
different ways and
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:06:24PM +0200, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
Yes, but when some existing modules will go into the kernel, some
other modules will have been created, waiting for validation.
Seems like a never ending story...
Well, alternatively we can also stop all new development ;)
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:43:57PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
Yes, but how do you know at runtime that a particular feature
(provided by a patch-o-matic module) is usable?
by telling the user about the prerequisites and let him apply
the necessarry patches. If you tell him to apply a
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= Eychenne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, but how do you know at runtime that a particular feature
(provided by a patch-o-matic module) is usable?
Well... try to use the module and see if it fails? Ugly hack...
In addition to what others have
