On Thursday 2010-03-25 13:49, Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >>>>>> and it seems more intuitive to write "-m state" >>>>>> than "-m conntrack --ctstate" to me. But "-m state --ctorigsrc fe80::/64" does not seem as intuitive as "-m conntrack --ctorigsrc fe80::/64". >>>>> It's such a basic match that it's simply overkill to remove it. >>>> Agreed. >>> So what now? Should xt_conntrack be perhaps rebranded as a new >>> xt_state rev and let's obsolete xt_conntrack.c instead? >> >> That's much more acceptable, also because of the usage patterns. And the >> migration can be made easier with module aliasing. > >Yes, I prefer that way as well. Both state and conntrack should >continue to work in userspace. We should be settling for one name in the long run. -- 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
