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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:48:42 +0100 From: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com> To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Re [RFC PATCH 1/2] iproute2: Add libnl support. Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> 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 True, but libnetlink doesn't provide utility routines for building genl interfaces like it does, say, for rtnl. To use libnetlink for this code, we'd have to c&p some code from genl/ctrl.c to handle the interface family registration, for example. It's all there in libnl already. But I understand your reservation about introducing a new library dependency. Since the rest of our netlink code uses libnl, I'm leaning towards having a separate utility for these commands so we can keep it libnl. -- James Chapman Katalix Systems Ltd http://www.katalix.com Catalysts for your Embedded Linux software development -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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