On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 12:53:40AM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > Assuming that pending extensions are sorted by first name and family, > then descending revision, the decision where to insert a newly > registered extension may be simplified by memorizing the previous > registration (which obviously is of same name and family and higher > revision). > > As a side-effect, fix for unsupported old extension revisions lingering > in pending extension list forever and being retried with every use of > the given extension. Any revision being rejected by the kernel may > safely be dropped iff a previous (read: higher) revision was accepted > already. > > Yet another side-effect of this change is the removal of an unwanted > recursion by xtables_fully_register_pending_*() into itself via > xtables_find_*(). LGTM.
