From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta•com>
To: James Chapman <chapman@katalix•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re [RFC PATCH 1/2] iproute2: Add libnl support.
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:06:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100329140642.7305bdfc@nehalam> (raw)
> This patch links the ip utility with libnl, which must be separately
> installed. This lets new functionality use libnl to implement its
> netlink interfaces.
>
> Package developers will need to add libnl to the iproute2 package
> dependencies.
> ---
> Makefile | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
No. I don't want to make iproute2 dependent on libnl.
It doesn't make sense to have dependency without major need for new
functionality. There are already netlink library routines in iproute2
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 21:09 UTC|newest]
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2010-03-29 21:06 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-03-30 7:48 ` Re [RFC PATCH 1/2] iproute2: Add libnl support James Chapman
2010-03-30 21:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
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