On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 05:44:39PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > +static void brmark_final_check(unsigned int flags) > +{ > + if (!flags) > + xtables_error(PARAMETER_PROBLEM, > + "You must specify some option"); You can provide better error reporting by checking this flags: if (!(flags & OPTION1 | OPTION2 | OPTION3)) xtables_error(..., "you have to specify at least one of these: --option1, --option2, --option3"); if (!(flags & OPTION4)) xtables_error(..., "--option4 is mandatory"); Please, revisit this. -- 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