| To: | "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: ipt_physdev.c alignment problems on parisc64 |
| From: | Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:06:21 +0200 |
| Cc: | Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@xxxxxxxxxx>, acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:59:03PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > I have to reject the fix for this problem again. > > You can't change the struct exported to userspace in any way > without breaking the tools. I tried to explain this in the > first revision of your change. But ipt_physdev is a 2.6ism, thus we can still introduce any incompatibility... For me it's enough to be compatible within 2.4 or within 2.6.x (once 2.6.0 is out). -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.netfilter.org/ ============================================================================ "Fragmentation is like classful addressing -- an interesting early architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going on while IP was being designed." -- Paul Vixie
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