On Monday 2009-11-02 17:17, Patrick McHardy wrote: >Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> In going to fix NF bug #611, "argv" would be needed in >> xtables_check_inverse to set "optarg" to the right spot in case of an >> intrapositional negation. Adding argv to the parameter list would >> cause an API change, which I would like to avoid because it is >> planned to be thrown out anyway. >> >> So deactive intrapositional support now already, but leave the error >> message (which has already been there for two releases). Slightly >> adjust it, because some users have been wondering whether iptables >> or they are at "fault". > >I'm worried that this is too early, two releases is not particulary >long and I'd expect a lot of people haven't noticed the warning yet, >especially on headless systems. Looking at bug #611, we've never >claimed "-ptcp" would be supported, so this hardly justifies the >risk IMO. > >At least this needs more discussion, I'd like to hear a few more >opinions on this. > Given the ultimate shortage of developers on NF these days, I am unsure there are that many opinions left. -- 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
