On Thursday 2009-03-19 13:55, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >> Patrick McHardy wrote: >>> I've planned to release the next iptables version sometime (late) >>> this weekend. We've had quite a lot of changes since the last >>> version, please test the latest version from git and report any >>> issues. >>> >>> Thanks! >> >> Great :). BTW, I'm finishing the cluster match manpage, I'll be done >> tonight, I'd like to see it in this iptables release (even if the >> feature is expected to appear in 2.6.30). > > I have to ask .. why? :) > > Besides potentially confusing people (why doesn't it work despite me > doing everything the manpage says), what are the advantages of including > the manpage before the actual implementation? It does not confuse people as much as you think, I would say. Since iptables runs with kernels so old the dust could kill, the scenarios where iptables has an .so file for a kernel piece that did not exist yet back then are numerous. -- 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
