Patrick McHardy wrote: > Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >> The events do not include the ID, this is how it goes as for now. >> Actually I'm not a big fun of the ID. >> >> @Patrick: I don't remember exactly the reason why we decided to keep the >> ID there, and if we have decided to do so, it seems inconsistent to me >> not to include it in the events. > > > I agree. I guess the reason why its not sent on events is that it > was originally only introduced (IIRC, I might be confusing it with > the ordered list on second thought) for dumps. > > The reason why we kept it at all is that people are already using > it as unique identifier, we only changed the uniqueness to mean > "unique at any given point in time", but not over time. I guess > the logical thing to do would be to also include it in events. > I know some people are using patches to do this already. Well, I'm not big fun of reducing the limited bandwidth of netlink but let's inserted it. I have a couple of patches here for ctnetlink. I can include one for this. -- "Los honestos son inadaptados sociales" -- Les Luthiers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
