On Sun, 1 Jul 2012, Mr Dash Four wrote: > > > The hash:net,iface type is out for a long time. It is not possible to change > > the meaning of src/dst without breaking backward compatibility, therefore I > > won't do it. > It has nothing to do with "backward compatibility" at all, but everything to > do with something which was done wrong initially and needs to be fixed. The > fact that this "has been out for a long time" is not an excuse - if anything, > it reflects pretty badly that this wasn't spotted earlier. Besides, when a bug > is discovered do you write a man page documenting it or do you fix that > particular bug? Call it a bug, whatever. I won't change the meaning of src/dst for hash:net,iface which then will break someone's working firewall after an upgrade. Best regards, Jozsef - E-mail : kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, kadlecsik.jozsef@xxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP key : http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/pgp_public_key.txt Address : Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences H-1525 Budapest 114, POB. 49, Hungary -- 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
