On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 06:50:42AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] add new nfnetlink_log subsystem
> Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 00:19:41 +0200
> 
> > > no, it hasn't.  I am travelling and don't have the space for a
> > > debian/i386 installation in addition to the debian/x86_64 on this box,
> > > sorry :(
> > 
> > That sounds risky. I would ask for this stuff not being merged before
> > it isn't tested.
> 
> Andi, stop this, you yourself, can test and verify this and suggest
> changes to the protocol structure layout if you want to.

I understand Andi's reasons and they're perfectly valid.  

When I started to get involved with netfilter/iptables, I didn't know
about the 32/64bit and alignment issues that exist in kernel/userspace
interfaces at all.  During the years however, I've suffered enough of
this for the rest of my life.

At this time I can assure him that greatest care was taken to not run
into any endian, 32/64, alignment or other issues - at least to the
degree of my (maybe limited) knowledge of this matter.

I have scheduled testing over the next week, although it's a bit
exhausting (and I'm too lazy) to test all the possible
arch/endian/... combinations.

> [...] more than ample time to do this, as this feature is
> scheduled to go into 2.6.14 and we haven't even gotten 2.6.13 out
> the door yet :-)

ACK.  

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