On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 03:54:25PM +1000, Duncan Roe wrote: > This is a call for comments on how we want the documentation to look. > In conjunction with the git diff, readers may find it helpful to apply the patch > in a temporary branch and check how the web page / man pages look. > To get web & man pages, do something like > > ./configure --enable-html-doc; make -j; firefox doxygen/html/index.html > MANPATH=$PWD/doxygen/man:$MANPATH > > Some changes are documented below - I'll post more later > > --- Preparation for man 7 libnetfilter_queue > The /anchor / <h1> ... </h1> combo is in preparation for making > libnetfilter_queue.7 from the main page. mainpage is morphed to a group > (temporarily) so all \section lines have to be changed to <h1> because \section > doesn't work in a group. The appearance stays the same. > > ---1st stab at commit message for finished patch > libnetfilter_queue effectively supports 2 ABIs, the older being based on > libnfnetlink and the newer on libmnl. Yes, there are two APIs, same thing occurs in other existing libnetfilter_* libraries, each of these APIs are based on libnfnetlink and libmnl respectively. > The libnetfilter_queue-based functions were tagged DEPRECATED but > there is a fading hope to re-implement these functions using libmnl. > So change DEPRECATED to "OLD API" and update the main page to > explain stuff. libnfnetlink will go away sooner or later. We are steadily replacing all client of this library for netfilter.org projects. Telling that this is not deprecated without providing a compatible "old API" for libmnl adds more confusion to this subject. If you want to explore providing a patch that makes the libnfnetlink-based API work over libmnl, then go for it.
