Re: iptables versioning feature causes ABI breakage

[Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 16:17, Pablo Neira wrote:
> Jamal,
> 
> Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > Could whoever that made the versioning changes in iptables please
> > contact me?
> 
> I was also involved in that change together with Rusty around january. 
> It's a new infrastructure to extend matches/targets without breaking 
> backward compatibility with previous releases of target/matches/iptables.
> 

I think in the future this will go fine; all actions have a version
field as well that is set to 0 at the moment.

> I must confess that I didn't have a look at your ipt_action stuff before 
> , now I did. As Patrick pointed out, we'll keep in mind your ipt thing 
> in future.
> 
> Your patch for tc to fix the problem looks fine. BTW, you can now use 
> extended MARK features like --and-mark and --or-mark ;->
> 

cool.

Would you like to pay for your sins;-> by looking at my code to see it
doesnt break or miss things?

cheers,
jamal