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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: [dpdk-dev] Common netlink parsing?
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2020 12:24:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200425122426.351675d7@hermes.lan> (raw)

While adding error handling to tap device, I noticed we already have two
places rolling their own netlink message handling (tap and mlx5) and now
with proposed IF proxy there is a third.

Netlink is non-trivial and easy to get wrong and doing error handling
also requires work. There should be a common library for this.

My preference would be to use pre-existing code (libmnl) but the
DPDK maintainers seem to have an aversion to taking a dependency on
any external code and reinvent everything (see RCU etc).


             reply	other threads:[~2020-04-25 19:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-25 19:24 Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2020-04-25 19:37 ` [dpdk-dev] Common netlink parsing? Thomas Monjalon
2020-04-27 11:43 ` Andrzej Ostruszka [C]

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