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)
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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
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2012-12-19 3:40 [Powertop] Libnl in Powertop Ganapati Bhat
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