Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Thursday 2009-03-19 13:55, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> 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. > Object files are a completely different questions. We've had tons of crap in there for unmerged patches that we did later merge and had to change the API, which caused "breakage" for people. So that is out of the question anyways. And a manpage for something that isn't even present will either not get noticed or confuse people. Its not useful. -- 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
