Subject: Re: [RFC nf-next 1/3] netfilter: bridge: add and use br_nf_hook_thresh

From: Aaron Conole <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:43:11 -0400

Aaron Conole <[email-masked]> writes:

> From: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
>
> This replaces the last uses of NF_HOOK_THRESH().
> Followup patch will remove it and rename nf_hook_thresh.
>
> The reason is that inet (non-bridge) netfilter no longer invokes the
> hooks from hooks, so we do no longer need the thresh value to skip hooks
> with a lower priority.
>
> The bridge netfilter however may need to do this. br_nf_hook_thresh is a
> wrapper that is supposed to do this, i.e. only call hooks with a
> priority that exceeds NF_BR_PRI_BRNF.
>
> It's used only in the recursion cases of br_netfilter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <[email-masked]>
> ---

I will make sure to fix the address in this patch.  Apologies.