2.3.29 breaks ipfwadm/ipchains compatibility.

Paul Rusty Russell (Paul.Russell@linuxcare.com.au)
Sun, 28 Nov 1999 15:45:29 +1100


The removal of the `int dummy' to procfs's get_info function breaks
ipfwadm and ipchains compatibility modules (maintained outside the
official kernel), which use it to indicate `read-and-reset' when the
file is open read-write.

Don't blame me; it wasn't my hack.

Linus, will you accept a patch to pass the `struct file*' to get_info?
(which allows access to the file mode again), or revert the removal of
this final get_info arg?

Rusty.
PS. No I don't want to put the backwards compatibility modules in the
mainstream kernel; to provide masquerading they use all the
new connection tracking and NAT code, and I don't want all that
in the official kernel (not for 2.4 at least).

--
Hacking time.

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