From ca482e8add1d3ea1998303dc8418d065c8bd3904 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Engelhardt Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:33:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README, .gitignore --- README | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++----------- extensions/.gitignore | 17 +++++++++-------- 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 3baf192..5922d94 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,31 +5,43 @@ Xtables-addons is the proclaimed successor to patch-o-matic(-ng). It contains extensions that were not accepted in the main Xtables package. -Xtables-addons is different from patch-o-matic in that you do not have -to patch or recompile either kernel or Xtables(iptables). But please -see the INSTALL file for the minimum requirements of this package. +Xtables-addons is different from patch-o-matic in that you do not +have to patch or recompile either kernel or Xtables(iptables). But +please see the INSTALL file for the minimum requirements of this +package. + +All code imported from patch-o-matic has been reviewed and all +apparent bugs like binary stability across multiarches, missing +sanity checks and incorrect endianess handling have been fixed, +simplified, and sped up. + + +Inclusion into a kernel tree +============================ + + External extensions =================== -The program "xa-download-more" can be used to download more extensions -from 3rd parties into the source tree. The URLs are listed in the -"sources" file. If the "sources" file contains an entry like +The program "xa-download-more" can be used to download more +extensions from 3rd parties into the source tree. The URLs are listed +in the "sources" file. If the "sources" file contains an entry like http://foobar.org/xa/ -xa-download-more will inspect http://foobar.org/xa/xa-index.txt for files -to download. That file may contain +xa-download-more will inspect http://foobar.org/xa/xa-index.txt for +files to download. That file may contain foobar.tar.bz2 and xa-download-more will then retrieve and unpack http://foobar.org/xa/foobar.tar.bz2. -Files that should be contained in the tarball are an mconfig and Kbuild -files to control building the extension, libxt_foobar.c for the userspace -extension and xt_foobar.c for the kernel extension. +Files that should be contained in the tarball are an mconfig and +Kbuild files to control building the extension, libxt_foobar.c for +the userspace extension and xt_foobar.c for the kernel extension. mconfig.foobar extensions/Kbuild.foobar diff --git a/extensions/.gitignore b/extensions/.gitignore index cadc390..254653f 100644 --- a/extensions/.gitignore +++ b/extensions/.gitignore @@ -1,13 +1,14 @@ -/.*.cmd -/.*.d -/.manpages.lst -/.tmp_versions -/*.ko -/*.mod.c +.*.cmd +.*.d +.tmp_versions +*.ko +*.mod.c +Module.symvers +modules.order + /*.so /*.oo /GNUmakefile -/Module.symvers -/modules.order /matches.man /targets.man +/.manpages.lst