On Friday 2008-06-27 22:08, Dave wrote: >Hi Jan, > >Thanks a bunch for clearing that up, looks like I'll be busy reading >that Netfilter Module pdf you created. It is mostly for developers or those who want to become one, but of course you can read it nevertheless. >I'm still confused a bit on why none of this is mentioned on >Netfilter.org. Is the official module patch system still POM as far as >the Netfilter guys are concerned? The following I found by chance in a mail archive... >From: kaber at trash.net (Patrick McHardy) >Date: Wed Apr 5 16:03:47 2006 >Subject: Update: Patch-o-matic cleanup > >Removing old patches is part of a greater plan to reduce the content >of pom to only those things the netfilter team has an interest in >maintaining, and most of these things will be merged in not too long >time. _All_ other patches will be removed [...] [P]eople interested >in keeping patches around can maintain them themselves and publish >them somewhere for others to use. This should benefit both us and >the authors since they usually maintain their own versions of the >patches anyway and periodically send us updates to include in pom, >which unnecessarily cost time for everyone involved. The action depicted was carried out in May 2006, http://tinyurl.com/5c7lno . I might add that I'd be happy to receive updates, additions or new modules to Xtables-addons. Because if you don't, I take it this project is already flawless and perfect ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
