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From: Thomas Haller <thaller@redhat.com>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
	Guillaume Nault <g.nault@alphalink.fr>,
	Brad Campbell <lists2009@fnarfbargle.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: commit : ppp: add rtnetlink device creation support - breaks netcf on my machine.
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 18:43:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481132622.4116.6.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1481065966.11028.3.camel@redhat.com>

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On Tue, 2016-12-06 at 17:12 -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > libnl1 rejects the IFLA_INFO_DATA attribute because it expects it
> > to
> > contain a sub-attribute. Since the payload size is zero it doesn't
> > match the policy and parsing fails.
> > 
> > There's no problem with libnl3 because its policy accepts empty
> > payloads for NLA_NESTED attributes (see libnl3 commit 4be02ace4826

Hi,

libnl1 is unmaintained these days. I don't think it makes sense to
backport that patch. The last upstream release was 3+ years ago, with
no upstream development since then.

IMHO netcf should drop libnl-1 support.

best,
Thomas

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-07 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-05  9:06 commit : ppp: add rtnetlink device creation support - breaks netcf on my machine Brad Campbell
2016-12-05 17:53 ` Guillaume Nault
2016-12-06  1:28   ` Brad Campbell
2016-12-06  7:47   ` Brad Campbell
2016-12-06 23:08     ` Guillaume Nault
2016-12-06 23:12       ` Dan Williams
2016-12-07 17:43         ` Thomas Haller [this message]
2016-12-08  2:29           ` Brad Campbell
2016-12-08  9:54             ` Guillaume Nault

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