On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:47:25 +0100 Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> wrote: > libmnl looks nice and simple (unlike libnl I was initially looking at by > accident). Now how to pull this off: > > I don't think mandatorily depending on libmnl will be acceptable, do > you? So I can imagine two ways to do this:
Having libmnl be mandatory is fine, but please put in net-next. Every distro has libmnl and as long as it is documented not a big deal. > A) Have a libmnl version of lib/libnetlink.c which is used instead of > the old one if libmnl is present. > > B) Pull a copy of libmnl into iproute2 sources so it's always available > (as fallback) and make it replace lib/libnetlink.c. This sounds worse > than it is, using git-subtree allows to do this without imposing user > knowledge about it (like git-submodule does). Just incrementally change code to use libmnl instead of libnetlink. Start with simple stuff. -- 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
