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| author | Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> | 2005-08-10 04:44:15 +0200 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2005-08-30 00:36:56 +0200 |
| commit | 7af4cc3fa158ff1dda6e7451c7e6afa6b0bb85cb (patch) | |
| tree | 752acd1f26063b23e5629124ee0a33078d2fb9a1 /Documentation | |
| parent | [NETFILTER]: Core changes required by upcoming nfnetlink_queue code (diff) | |
| download | linux-7af4cc3fa158ff1dda6e7451c7e6afa6b0bb85cb.tar.xz linux-7af4cc3fa158ff1dda6e7451c7e6afa6b0bb85cb.zip | |
[NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlink_queue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlink
- Add new nfnetlink_queue module
- Add new ipt_NFQUEUE and ip6t_NFQUEUE modules to access queue numbers 1-65535
- Mark ip_queue and ip6_queue Kconfig options as OBSOLETE
- Update feature-removal-schedule to remove ip[6]_queue in December
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 8b1430b46655..0665cb12bd66 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -135,3 +135,15 @@ Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a pcmciautils package available at http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ Who: Dominik Brodowski <linux@brodo.de> + +--------------------------- + +What: ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue) +When: December 2005 +Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent + "nfnetlink_queue". The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old + ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle + all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0. Userspace users will have + to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue + instead of the current 'libipq'. +Who: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> |