Discrete packaging of experimental modules

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Saturday, September 18, 2004 6:45 PM +0200 Henrik Nordstrom 
<hno at marasystems.com> wrote:

> Extensions which is self-contained (header + c file, no patching of other
> files) can be compiled outside of the kernel just as any other kernel
> module, but there is no infrastructure in the netfilter project for doing
> this kind of out-of-kernel module builds and how to do this is left as an
> excersise to the reader.

Oh, good, thanks.

> Please note that you also need to build the userspace extension object.

Expected, hence my question/suggestion about making the extensions 
dynamically loadable. For instance, it would be nice if an extension could 
drop its userspace into, say, /usr/libexec/netfilter/xxx.so and be 
instantly recognized. One could then release a kernel-matched rpm or deb 
with the kernel module and the userspace component for the extension.