Re: [PATCH RFC nft] src: meta: always prefix 'meta' for all tokens

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On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 04:16:51PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> got following bug report:
> 
> nft add ... ct mark set mark and 0x10
> 
> ... always sets 0.
> What reporter meant to write instead was 'ct mark',
> not 'mark'.
> 
> We can't just remove support for 'mark' and force
> 'meta mark', but we can start to discourage it by always
> printing the longer form.
> 
> Later on, we could start to print deprecation warning if needed.
> 
> NB: Patch causes gazillion of test case warnings, I would fix those
> up of course.

This is a good idea. It would also be ambiguous with socket mark (as it will
probably be introduced soon).
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