From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dsahern@gmail.com, daniel@iogearbox.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute: Add support for extended ack to rtnl_talk
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 09:43:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170504094356.66590a9a@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170504.104103.1628291573330660235.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 04 May 2017 10:41:03 -0400 (EDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 08:27:35 -0600
>
> > On 5/4/17 3:36 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> >> What is the clear benefit/rationale of outsourcing this to
> >> libmnl? I always was the impression we should strive for as little
> >> dependencies as possible?
> >
> > +1
>
> Agreed, all else being equal iproute2 should be as self contained
> as possible since it is such a fundamental tool.
Sorry, the old netlink code is more difficult to understand than libmnl.
Having dependency on a library is not a problem. There already is
an alternative implementation of ip commands in busybox for those
people trying to work in small environments.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-04 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-03 23:56 [RFC] iproute: Add support for extended ack to rtnl_talk Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-04 9:36 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-05-04 14:27 ` David Ahern
2017-05-04 14:41 ` David Miller
2017-05-04 15:50 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2017-05-04 16:43 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-05-04 20:43 ` Phil Sutter
2017-05-14 1:29 ` David Ahern
2017-05-16 16:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-18 10:02 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-05-18 14:55 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-19 4:24 ` David Ahern
2017-08-03 20:26 ` David Ahern
2017-08-04 11:31 ` Simon Horman
2017-08-04 16:47 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-07 16:48 ` David Ahern
2017-08-07 18:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-07 18:09 ` David Ahern
2017-08-07 18:45 ` David Miller
2017-08-07 19:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-08-07 20:26 ` David Miller
2017-08-07 21:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-04 14:37 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-05-04 16:45 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-04 17:55 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-05-06 10:36 ` Jiri Pirko
2017-05-04 16:42 ` Stephen Hemminger
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