On 2015-06-04 12:23, Pavel Simerda wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Stephen Hemminger" <step...@networkplumber.org> >> To: "richard alpe" <richard.a...@ericsson.com> >> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net >> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 11:43:40 PM >> Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tipc: introduce TIPC configuration tool >> >> On Thu, 7 May 2015 15:07:35 +0200 >> <richard.a...@ericsson.com> wrote: >> >>> From: Richard Alpe <richard.a...@ericsson.com> >>> >>> This is the new tipc tool that utilizes the relativly new TIPC netlink API >>> in >>> the kernel. Introducing this tool into iproute2 has been discussed >>> previously. >>> >>> For more information about the design decisions of this tool, see the >>> README >>> file. >>> >>> There isn't yet a manpage for the this tool. I will start to write one once >>> I >>> submitted this for review. >>> >>> Richard Alpe (1): >>> tipc: add new TIPC configuration tool >> >> I went ahead and merged this. >> It does add dependency on libmnl which the distribution maintainers will have >> to add to their stuff. > > Does the new dependency suggest the whole iproute2 is moving to libmnl? That is what I was told and the reason I wrote "tipc" based on libmnl.
Regards Richard > Or is > there a good reason to use an external netlink library as well as an internal > one? > > Cheers, > > Pavel > >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in >> the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org >> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
