From 7af4cc3fa158ff1dda6e7451c7e6afa6b0bb85cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Harald Welte Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 19:44:15 -0700 Subject: [NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlink_queue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlink - Add new nfnetlink_queue module - Add new ipt_NFQUEUE and ip6t_NFQUEUE modules to access queue numbers 1-65535 - Mark ip_queue and ip6_queue Kconfig options as OBSOLETE - Update feature-removal-schedule to remove ip[6]_queue in December Signed-off-by: Harald Welte Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 8b1430b4665..0665cb12bd6 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -135,3 +135,15 @@ Why: With the 16-bit PCMCIA subsystem now behaving (almost) like a pcmciautils package available at http://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/pcmcia/ Who: Dominik Brodowski + +--------------------------- + +What: ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue) +When: December 2005 +Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent + "nfnetlink_queue". The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old + ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle + all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0. Userspace users will have + to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue + instead of the current 'libipq'. +Who: Harald Welte -- cgit v1.2.3