Jan Engelhardt wrote: > [cc morphed to more interested parties] > > On Thursday 2008-11-27 19:33, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> On Thursday 2008-11-27 17:15, Patrick McHardy wrote: >>>> >>>> This patch adds the macro MODULE_ALIAS_NFCT_HELPER that defines a >>>> way to provide generic and persistent aliases for the connection >>>> tracking helpers. >>> I wonder a bit. iptables is fine with loading ipt_%s (mapped to xt_%s), >>> but conntrack requires an nfct-help-%s namespace and cannot use >>> nf_conntrack_%s? >>> Of course it makes sense to use a separate namespace - especially >>> in light of the nf_conntrack_ prefix used by both helpers and >>> protos, but I'm still asking. It is not the same point. The xt_* aliases in iptables were introduced to keep backward compatibility for iptables (old versions try to load ipt_* or ip6t_* modules, as they don't know anything about xt_*. Of course, this is no longer true for current iptables versions). The reason why I introduced the nfct-help aliases is to avoid a change in every request_module() invocation if we ever rename the helper files to something like nf_conntrack_helper_*.c or whatever. If that happens at some point, we will only have to change the MODULE_ALIAS_NFCT_HELPER macro to point to the new name-space. This looks much cleaner to me. >> Please CC the people that can actually answer this question. >> > Please set CC when running git-send-email :) Burp! -- "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
