[PATCH][EBTABLES] Add wildcard support for interface matching

Hi Dave,

Due to an old braindead decision, ebtables doesn't yet support the
wildcard '+' for matching interface names. The following patch removes
this nuissance and is backwards compatible.

cheers,
Bart

--- linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk1/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c.old	2004-10-24 10:11:02.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc1-bk1/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c	2004-10-24 10:08:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -109,11 +109,17 @@ static inline int ebt_do_match (struct e
 
 static inline int ebt_dev_check(char *entry, const struct net_device *device)
 {
+	int i = 0;
+	char *devname = device->name;
+
 	if (*entry == '\0')
 		return 0;
 	if (!device)
 		return 1;
-	return !!strcmp(entry, device->name);
+	/* 1 is the wildcard token */
+	while (entry[i] != '\0' && entry[i] != 1 && entry[i] == devname[i])
+		i++;
+	return (devname[i] != entry[i] && entry[i] != 1);
 }
 
 #define FWINV2(bool,invflg) ((bool) ^ !!(e->invflags & invflg))



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