Linux 2.6 support for "rope" match module

[Harald Welte]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 11:07:53AM +0000, Chris Lowth wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote
> 
> >That almost feels like doing floating-point in kernelspace.
> > 
> In what sense?

Chris, see, you might be new to this, so I give you some hints:

A number of people (in)frequently attempt to do a couple of things that
just ring all the alarm bells of kernel hackers.  Some of those are:

1) c++ in the kernel
2) bytecode interpreters (e.g. forth) in the kernel
3) floating point in the kernel

So while your rope module might solve your problems, you will have a
hard time finding anyone who thinks it is the right solution, and that
is independent of whatever the problem might be.

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge at netfilter.org>                 http://netfilter.org/
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   architectural error that shows how much experimentation was going
   on while IP was being designed."                    -- Paul Vixie
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