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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Powertop] Libnl in Powertop
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 19:01:13 +0300
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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. W=
hen
>    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 pro=
tocol
based Linux kernel interfaces.[..]  It was designed to be a more flexible s=
uccessor
to ioctl to provide mainly networking related kernel configuration and moni=
toring interfaces"


> Can anyone please tell me what is functionality that libnl adds to powert=
op? =


for example, 802.11 tuning.


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

no, it's not.


	-ss

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