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

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>]

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