f9ff9d57518a26124308bcbfffd214 parent 880b005f294454d989783d0984dc554dfe3c8214 author Harald Welte 1137101404 -0800 committer David S. Miller 1137103603 -0800 [NETFILTER] x_tables: Abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables This monster-patch tries to do the best job for unifying the data structures and backend interfaces for the three evil clones ip_tables, ip6_tables and arp_tables. In an ideal world we would never have allowed this kind of copy+paste programming... but well, our world isn't (yet?) ideal. o introduce a new x_tables module o {ip,arp,ip6}_tables depend on this x_tables module o registration functions for tables, matches and targets are only wrappers around x_tables provided functions o all matches/targets that are used from ip_tables and ip6_tables are now implemented as xt_FOOBAR.c files and provide module aliases to ipt_FOOBAR and ip6t_FOOBAR o header files for xt_matches are in include/linux/netfilter/, include/linux/netfilter_{ipv4,ipv6} contains compatibility wrappers around the xt_FOOBAR.h headers Based on this patchset we're going to further unify the code, gradually getting rid of all the layer 3 specific assumptions. Signed-off-by: Harald Welte Signed-off-by: David S. Miller tùÖ