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| author | Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> | 2006-07-24 22:54:55 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2006-07-24 22:54:55 -0700 |
| commit | 10ea6ac895418bd0d23900e3330daa6ba0836d26 (patch) | |
| tree | 299c04f0a248bf2432f1d729f792221c7ed26515 /Documentation | |
| parent | 28658c8967da9083be83af0a37be3b190bae79da (diff) | |
[NETFILTER]: bridge netfilter: add deferred output hooks to feature-removal-schedule
Add bridge netfilter deferred output hooks to feature-removal-schedule
and disable them by default. Until their removal they will be
activated by the physdev match when needed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 9d3a0775a11d..87851efb0228 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -258,3 +258,19 @@ Why: These drivers never compiled since they were added to the kernel Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> --------------------------- + +What: Bridge netfilter deferred IPv4/IPv6 output hook calling +When: January 2007 +Why: The deferred output hooks are a layering violation causing unusual + and broken behaviour on bridge devices. Examples of things they + break include QoS classifation using the MARK or CLASSIFY targets, + the IPsec policy match and connection tracking with VLANs on a + bridge. Their only use is to enable bridge output port filtering + within iptables with the physdev match, which can also be done by + combining iptables and ebtables using netfilter marks. Until it + will get removed the hook deferral is disabled by default and is + only enabled when needed. + +Who: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> + +--------------------------- |