On Monday 2012-12-17 15:30, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: >On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 02:01:07PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >[...] >> >So far, I haven't see any *strong reason* to drop nftables code >> >> In all fairness, I have never said anything about dropping nft. >> I am focused on xt2, its inclusion and subsequent maintenance, because >> it resolves the ipt shortcomings in a way that I think appeals most to >> the userspace crowd. > >I'm still not convinced but I want find a short-term compromise >solution for this which does not involve tons of email. We'll announce >the netfilter workshop soon, likely to happen at Q1 2013 depending on >availability of the organizer, but maybe Q2 2013 (but not later), I >think it's the place to debate your proposal and nftables, of course. > >I will not get anything into mainline until then. Delaying this for more months is not a good idea, I think. The amount of patches will grow as more features are implemented. If there is an objection to a patch, then this can have implications for all those that follow (not rebase conflicts, but actual invalidating), which gets more painful the larger the patchset is. -- 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
