Re: [PATCH iproute2] tipc: introduce TIPC configuration tool

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda@redhat.com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> To: "richard alpe" <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@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.alpe@ericsson.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@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? Or is
there a good reason to use an external netlink library as well as an internal one?

Cheers,

Pavel

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