From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ana Rey Subject: Re: [v4 nf 0/5] Named counter objects support in nft Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:17:46 +0100 Message-ID: <54E482EA.3060306@soleta.eu> References: <20150217172301.GA7558@acer.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Patrick McHardy , Pablo Neira Ayuso , Netfilter Development Mailing list Return-path: Received: from 129.166.216.87.static.jazztel.es ([87.216.166.129]:55479 "EHLO correo.soleta.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750974AbbBRMQw (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2015 07:16:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20150217172301.GA7558@acer.localdomain> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 17/02/15 18:23, Patrick McHardy wrote: > On 04.02, Ana Rey Botello wrote: >> Hi, >> >> With this patchset, we add named counter objects support. It is similar >> to nfacct in iptables. > > Thanks for doing this work. I have some patches coming up very soon > which have kind of an intersection with your work, so I'd ask for a > little bit of patience until we can integrate them. ok, I'll be patient. > > Basically what my patches will do is to allow to statically or > dynamically "stateify" and expression type, including counters. > Your patches are one of the missing pieces in doing that, however > we most likely want to change them in a way that they not only > allow access to counter objects, but any kind of expression. Its > a rather minor change to your work, but requires some things I'm > still working on. Hope to have something ready by the end of next > week. > > I'll keep you posted. >