David S. Miller writes:
> From: Harald Welte <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 01:45:12 +0100
>
> > [NETFILTER] x_tables: Fix XT_ALIGN() macro on [at least] ppc32
> >
> > To keep backwards compatibility with old iptables userspace programs,
> > the new XT_ALIGN macro always has to return the same value as IPT_ALIGN,
> > IP6T_ALIGN or ARPT_ALIGN in previous kernels.
> >
> > However, in those kernels the macro was defined in dependency to the
> > respective layer3 specifi data structures, which we can no longer do with
> > x_tables.
> >
> > The fix is an ugly kludge, but it has been tested to solve the problem. Yet
> > another reason to move away from the current {ip,ip6,arp,eb}tables like
> > data structures.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <[email protected]>
>
> Harald, I'm going to modify this to just use u_int64_t as that
> should be totally sufficient.
ACK. Both Harald's patch and DaveM's simplification of it
(simply s/void */u_int64_t/g in XT_ALIGN()) fix the iptables
problems on my ppc32 box.
/Mikael
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