Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:10:31PM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote: > > Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I'm mainly interested if you think timer removal is worthwile, > > > > it works well in practice from usability POV. > > > > > > Thanks for looking again into this. We definitely have to get rid of > > > that timer. > > > > > > Regarding the new flag, perhaps we can avoid exposing this to > > > userspace? I mean, we can define some mask of internal flags that we > > > don't include via dump_status in ctnetlink. > > > > What is your rationale for supressing this information? > > [ or, why is exposing this to userspace bad? ] > > I think that flag provides no useful information to userspace. Fair enough. > > Is it so we don't have to keep dummy flag when we find a different > > solution later? > > Right, that's another good reason not to expose that information to > userspace. Alright, I'll create a separate patch that adds mask of 'public' flags that will be dumped to userspace. Will send it along with another spin of this patch next week or so. -- 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
