netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] lib: move rtnl_echo

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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:28:46 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>, Andrea Claudi
 <aclaudi@...hat.com>, Ying Xu <yinxu@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] lib: move rtnl_echo_talk from libnetlink to
 utils

On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:11:46 +0800
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com> wrote:

> > compatibility if an application links with it.  Collect2 should be
> > using a supported library like libmnl instea.  
> 
> It's not about compatibility. If an application linked with netlink.a, the
> build will failed. e.g. 

Applications that link with libnetlink.a do so at their own risk.
It is not guaranteed to be a standalone library.
If it worked be for, that was by accident not intention.

The reason libnetlink.a is not supported is that the same reason that
kernel API's are not fixed. Also, there is no test suite for just libnetlink.