{"id":815502,"url":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/covers/815502/?format=json","web_url":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/cover/20170919124954.26852-1-fw@strlen.de/","project":{"id":26,"url":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/projects/26/?format=json","name":"Netfilter Development","link_name":"netfilter-devel","list_id":"netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org","list_email":"netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org","web_url":null,"scm_url":null,"webscm_url":null,"list_archive_url":"","list_archive_url_format":"","commit_url_format":""},"msgid":"<20170919124954.26852-1-fw@strlen.de>","list_archive_url":null,"date":"2017-09-19T12:49:52","name":"[nft,0/2] store expression instead of data type as set key","submitter":{"id":1025,"url":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/people/1025/?format=json","name":"Florian Westphal","email":"fw@strlen.de"},"mbox":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/cover/20170919124954.26852-1-fw@strlen.de/mbox/","series":[{"id":3866,"url":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/series/3866/?format=json","web_url":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/list/?series=3866","date":"2017-09-19T12:49:52","name":"store expression instead of data type as set key","version":1,"mbox":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/series/3866/mbox/"}],"comments":"http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/api/covers/815502/comments/","headers":{"Return-Path":"","X-Original-To":"incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org","Delivered-To":"patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org","Authentication-Results":"ozlabs.org;\n\tspf=none (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=vger.kernel.org\n\t(client-ip=209.132.180.67; helo=vger.kernel.org;\n\tenvelope-from=netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org;\n\treceiver=)","Received":["from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67])\n\tby ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3xxN4L1KPrz9s7c\n\tfor ;\n\tTue, 19 Sep 2017 22:49:38 +1000 (AEST)","(majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand\n\tid S1751858AbdISMth (ORCPT );\n\tTue, 19 Sep 2017 08:49:37 -0400","from Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc ([146.0.238.67]:54692 \"EHLO\n\tChamillionaire.breakpoint.cc\" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK)\n\tby vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751519AbdISMtg (ORCPT\n\t);\n\tTue, 19 Sep 2017 08:49:36 -0400","from fw by Chamillionaire.breakpoint.cc with local (Exim 4.84_2)\n\t(envelope-from )\n\tid 1duHut-0003DZ-UR; Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:46:20 +0200"],"From":"Florian Westphal ","To":"","Subject":"[PATCH nft 0/2] store expression instead of data type as set key","Date":"Tue, 19 Sep 2017 14:49:52 +0200","Message-Id":"<20170919124954.26852-1-fw@strlen.de>","X-Mailer":"git-send-email 2.13.5","Sender":"netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org","Precedence":"bulk","List-ID":"","X-Mailing-List":"netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org"},"content":"This is a prerequisite to later support dynamic data types, e.g. string,\nas a set key. The string datatype (and integer) do not have a fixed size,\ninstead the size is determined by the expression.\n\nThis keeps the expression all the way down to set construction.\nFurthermore, in case of concatenations we can use EXPR_CONCAT to allow the\nnetlink linearization step to determine the original sizes of the keys\ncomponents.\n\nBoth changes are preparation work, they add no feature.\n\n\n--\nTo unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe netfilter-devel\" in\nthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\nMore majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html"}