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

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Message-ID: <ZLDA4dT+pF6AeTP3@Laptop-X1>
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:28:33 +0800
From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@...il.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
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 Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 03:28:46PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.

Thanks for the explain.

Regards
Hangbin