Re: [ovs-dev] [RFC PATCH 1/5] netfilter: Remove IP_CT_NEW_REPLY definition.

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> On Oct 21, 2015, at 1:33 AM, Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> [Copying netfilter-devel]
> 
> On 10/20/15 at 03:20pm, Jarno Rajahalme wrote:
>> Remove the definition of IP_CT_NEW_REPLY as it does not make sense.
>> This allows the definition of IP_CT_NUMBER to be simplified as well.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jarno Rajahalme <jrajahalme@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h | 7 ++++---
>> net/openvswitch/conntrack.c                        | 2 --
>> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h
>> index 319f471..e0aebc8 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/netfilter/nf_conntrack_common.h
>> @@ -20,9 +20,10 @@ enum ip_conntrack_info {
>> 
>> 	IP_CT_ESTABLISHED_REPLY = IP_CT_ESTABLISHED + IP_CT_IS_REPLY,
>> 	IP_CT_RELATED_REPLY = IP_CT_RELATED + IP_CT_IS_REPLY,
>> -	IP_CT_NEW_REPLY = IP_CT_NEW + IP_CT_IS_REPLY,	
>> -	/* Number of distinct IP_CT types (no NEW in reply dirn). */
>> -	IP_CT_NUMBER = IP_CT_IS_REPLY * 2 - 1
>> +	/* No IP_CT_NEW_REPLY */
>> +
>> +	/* Number of distinct IP_CT types. */
>> +	IP_CT_NUMBER
>> };
> 
> I understand what you are doing here but this is part of the published
> UAPI and removing this might break compilation of a user application
> even if the definition is not used right now. It's probably safer to
> leave the definition and obsolete it with a comment.

OK. I should probably separate the netlink and openvswitch changes to separate patches as well?

  Jarno

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