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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
To: powertop@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [Powertop] Libnl in Powertop
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:01:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121220160113.GA2690@swordfish.minsk.epam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CABa1t5xZ6ud2=QSYV-6VWDtiM3EcwOS0EdnCdm1D9U7bscN3yw@mail.gmail.com

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Hello,

On (12/19/12 09:10), Ganapati Bhat wrote:
>    Hello All,
>    I am new to using powertop and development in opensource as a whole. When
>    I went through the earlier versions I found that libnl was not needed in
>    the older versions. 

well,
"The libnl suite is a collection of libraries providing APIs to netlink protocol
based Linux kernel interfaces.[..]  It was designed to be a more flexible successor
to ioctl to provide mainly networking related kernel configuration and monitoring interfaces"


> Can anyone please tell me what is functionality that libnl adds to powertop? 

for example, 802.11 tuning.


> Is it possible to build v2.1 without using libnl?
>

no, it's not.


	-ss

             reply	other threads:[~2012-12-20 16:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-20 16:01 Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
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2012-12-19  3:40 [Powertop] Libnl in Powertop Ganapati Bhat

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