From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber•org>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com>
Cc: shemminger@vyatta•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>,
Hasan Chowdhury <shemonc@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [IPROUTE PATCH] iproute2: act_ipt fix xtables breakage on older versions.
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:16:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130425161624.68fa65b3@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130425220716.6520.94862.stgit@ahduyck-cp1.jf.intel.com>
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:07:16 -0700
Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com> wrote:
> In trying to build on a RHEL6.3 I ran into several build issues that are
> addressed in this patch.
>
> The first is that xtables_options_xfrm only has 3 options. It appears this is
> how this code was originally. As such for the case where the version is less
> than 6 I am assuming it would be correct to maintain the original setup that
> only had 3 parameters being passed instead of 4.
>
> I also ran into an issue with the define for __ALIGN_KERNEL not being present.
> I believe this may be due to the fact that __ALIGN_KERNEL was moved into a
> separate header from ALIGN after the uapi changes. In order to just cover all
> of the bases I have moved the main definition for the macros into
> __ALIGN_KERNEL_MASK and __ALIGN_KERNEL and if ALIGN is also needed then it is
> just a direct redefine to __ALIGN_KERNEL.
>
> Cc: Hasan Chowdhury <shemonc@gmail•com>
> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu•com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com>
I want some feedback from Jamal and libxt netfilter experts.
This code has been fragile in the past.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-25 23:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-25 22:07 [IPROUTE PATCH] iproute2: act_ipt fix xtables breakage on older versions Alexander Duyck
2013-04-25 23:16 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2013-04-26 13:20 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2013-04-26 15:58 ` Alexander Duyck
2013-04-28 14:31 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2013-04-28 20:53 ` Alexander Duyck
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