From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:49:26 +0100 (CET) > On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> On Monday 2012-12-17 15:30, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >> >> >On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:01:07PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >[...] >> >> >So far, I haven't see any *strong reason* to drop nftables code >> >> >> >> In all fairness, I have never said anything about dropping nft. >> >> I am focused on xt2, its inclusion and subsequent maintenance, because >> >> it resolves the ipt shortcomings in a way that I think appeals most to >> >> the userspace crowd. >> > >> >I'm still not convinced but I want find a short-term compromise >> >solution for this which does not involve tons of email. We'll announce >> >the netfilter workshop soon, likely to happen at Q1 2013 depending on >> >availability of the organizer, but maybe Q2 2013 (but not later), I >> >think it's the place to debate your proposal and nftables, of course. >> > >> >I will not get anything into mainline until then. >> >> Delaying this for more months is not a good idea, I think. >> >> The amount of patches will grow as more features are implemented. If >> there is an objection to a patch, then this can have implications for >> all those that follow (not rebase conflicts, but actual >> invalidating), which gets more painful the larger the patchset is. > > A few months won't really hurt - TPROXY had been discussed for a couple of > years at every workshop (and it was much simpler, smaller code). Both > nftables and xtables2 have got nice features, so it's not a simple > question. Agreed. -- 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
