----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Alpe" <richard.a...@ericsson.com> > To: "Pavel Simerda" <psime...@redhat.com>, "Stephen Hemminger" > <step...@networkplumber.org> > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discuss...@lists.sourceforge.net > Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2015 1:40:47 PM > Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tipc: introduce TIPC configuration tool > > 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
That is great news, I was at first afraid that it was a random decision limited to tipc. Is there any plan for the move? I might just as well participate. Also I found out that some things are done using ioctl instead of netlink, especially in ip-tunnel. I'd happily be part of a larger scale iproute2 cleanup. Cheers, Pavel > > 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
