On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 01:13:53PM -0600, Raymond Burkholder wrote: > On 8/29/21 12:35 PM, Dmitrii Banshchikov wrote: > > The patchset is based on the patches from David S. Miller [1] and > > Daniel Borkmann [2]. > > > > The main goal of the patchset is to prepare bpfilter for > > iptables' configuration blob parsing and code generation. > > The referenced patches are from 2018. Since then, and since this is > bpf-next, places like [1] indicate that we are moving on from iptables > towards nftables. > > Any thoughts? I'm not sure what kind of thoughts you expect. If your question is why to use an outdated interface the answer is - this is just a starting point and nothing prevents us from having our own interface in future . > > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iptables > -- Dmitrii Banshchikov
