From patchwork Tue Jul 30 14:37:30 2019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Florian Westphal X-Patchwork-Id: 1139012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; spf=none (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=vger.kernel.org (client-ip=209.132.180.67; helo=vger.kernel.org; envelope-from=netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org; receiver=) Authentication-Results: ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=strlen.de Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45yfLx389Hz9s8m for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2019 00:38:49 +1000 (AEST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729292AbfG3Ois (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:38:48 -0400 Received: from Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc ([193.142.43.52]:42928 "EHLO Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727077AbfG3Ois (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:38:48 -0400 Received: from fw by Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc with local (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hsTH5-0004WW-Af; Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:38:47 +0200 From: Florian Westphal To: Subject: [RFC 0/2] typeof keyword, alternate patch Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:37:30 +0200 Message-Id: <20190730143732.2126-1-fw@strlen.de> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.21.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org Similar idea to Pablos approach, similar drawbacks. It can be used First patch is to make it easier to later on handle concatenations, maps and the like -- it will retain the proper length so you can have maps that e.g. return 'ct helper' or 'osf name' values. Don't know yet when I can work on this again, I will comment on Pablos patch set soon.