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Re: [PATCH] remove dead skb_iter code

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove dead skb_iter code
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:59:22 +0100
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, shemminger@xxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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* 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.

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