Subject: Re: commit : ppp: add rtnetlink device creation support - breaks netcf on my machine.

From: Thomas Haller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:43:42 +0100

On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 17:12 -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > libnl1 rejects the IFLA_INFO_DATA attribute because it expects it
> > to
> > contain a sub-attribute. Since the payload size is zero it doesn't
> > match the policy and parsing fails.
> > 
> > There's no problem with libnl3 because its policy accepts empty
> > payloads for NLA_NESTED attributes (see libnl3 commit 4be02ace4826

Hi,

libnl1 is unmaintained these days. I don't think it makes sense to
backport that patch. The last upstream release was 3+ years ago, with
no upstream development since then.

IMHO netcf should drop libnl-1 support.

best,
Thomas