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Re: [PATCH/RFC] Reduce call chain length in netfilter

from [Patrick McHardy] [Permanent Link][Original]
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] Reduce call chain length in netfilter
From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:35:42 +0100
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bdschuym@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, Netfilter development mailing list <netfilter-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, snort2004@xxxxxxx, ak@xxxxxxx, bridge@xxxxxxxx, gandalf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, shemminger@xxxxxxxx
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Rusty Russell wrote:

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 17:10 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

In tree, yes.  But leaving the NF_HOOK()/NF_HOOK_THRESH() compat
macros in there for out-of-tree modules I feel is mandatory, it's
a major API change.


I'm not so sure.  The hook functions which are registered, sure (ie.
keep the calling convention the same).  But do any external modules use
NF_HOOK()?  That implies they're writing their own network stack for
some protocol, which I would expect to be uncommon.

Freeswan comes to mind. But I guess one more #ifdef can't hurt :)

Regards
Patrick


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