Update README, .gitignore

diff --git a/README b/README
index 3baf1926664817df02ab9e985ab76ed6cba783de..5922d9490c658d6d69bd37738531658e81f76c03 100644 (file)
--- 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 cadc390de4ebc825d4e08fc8ea942dbc8f3a868a..254653fbb8283ed1fc38f54967ffc10165719865 100644 (file)
--- 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