Subject: Re: [RFC iproute2-next] remove support for iptables action

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 09:11:18 -0800

On Sat, 23 Dec 2023 13:31:03 +0100
Florian Westphal <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >  tc/em_ipset.c                        | 260 --------------  
> 
> Not sure if this is unused, also not related to the iptables/xt action.

There is both the xtables and ematch options to TC.
Jamal do you want to remove both, or some subset?

The problematic area for iproute2 seems to be the dependency on libiptables
which is not very stable. On the kernel side it is one of the places
where lightly tested integration could lead to lots of syszbot errors.