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For example, by having a userspace helper for it. Pretty similar to the same way that the kernel itself doesn't do firmware patching, but relies on userspace to
by tremon 6y ago
For example, by having a userspace helper for it. Pretty similar to the same way that the kernel itself doesn't do firmware patching, but relies on userspace to handle the opaque blobs.
- rwmj 6y agoFirmware patching happens rarely, but decoding packets in the firewall would be far slower and more fragile if it required calling out to a userspace process.