Re: [patch] xtables: use guarded types

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On 09/12/10 20:25, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Thursday 2010-12-09 11:43, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
>> On 03/12/10 20:13, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> parent b880c1f077000956b9f475d5f3b6c5e45ff2e342 (v2.6.37-rc1-241-gb880c1f)
>>> commit 4826151aedbe6e364b7b801f026fbe7383904b6a
>>> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date:   Thu Dec 2 21:01:17 2010 +0100
>>>
>>> netfilter: xtables: use guarded types
>>>
>>> We are supposed to use the kernel's own types in userspace exports.
>>
>> What's the point to have different headers in the kernel source code
>> tree and iptables?
> 
> Because iptables needs to know more structs than the kernel provides.
> 
> But... what does that have to do with the patch?

I mean that, after this patch, iptables headers and Linux kernel headers
will be out of sync, right?
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