Re: [PATCH] remove dead skb_iter code

[Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>]

* David S. Miller <20050302142542.2ae86040.davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2005-03-02 14:25
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 22:07:35 +0000
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe because the removal is right.  This code is not dependent on
> > any networking internals so it can easily live in a netfilter support
> > module instead of bloating everyones kernels.
> 
> Fine, I'll kill it for now.  (I also happen to know that it might
> be used for ipv4 fragmentation tricks too, but that's also in the
> future).

It will be used for the string matching API shared by netfilter
and ematches. Not sure yet whether it will live in lib/ or net/netfilter
though.