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From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To:     Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>
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Subject: Re: [libnftnl PATCH 2/2] Deprecate untyped data setters
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 06:49:48PM +0100, Phil Sutter wrote:
> These functions make assumptions on size of passed data pointer and
> therefore tend to hide programming mistakes. Instead either one of the
> type-specific setters or the generic *_set_data() setter should be used.

Please, confirm that the existing iptables / nft codebase will not hit
compilation warnings because of deprecated functions.

Thanks.