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From: Hongyang Yang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 2/7] remus: add libnl3 dependency for
 network buffering support
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:31:35 +0800
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Hi Ian,

On 07/03/2014 06:03 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-02 at 16:09 +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote:
>> Libnl3 is required for controlling Remus network buffering.
>> This patch adds dependency on libnl3 (>= 3.2.8) to autoconf scripts.
>> Also provide ability to configure tools without libnl3 support, that
>> is without network buffering support.
>>
>> when there's no network buffering support,libxl__netbuffer_enabled()
>> returns 0, otherwise returns 1. The callers of this api will be
>> introduced in the rest of the series.
>>
>> NOTE: This patch changes tools/configure.ac, please rerun
>>        autogen.sh while apply the patch.
>> Signed-off-by: Shriram Rajagopalan <rshriram@cs.ubc.ca>
>> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Yang Hongyang <yanghy@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
>> Acked-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
>
> I considered applying this but I suppose it isn't all that useful
> without the rest of the remus stuff so it might as well wait. Thoughts?

Agreed.

>
> Perhaps someone might like to consider modifying ts-xen-build-prep and
> ts-xen-install in http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=osstest.git to add
> whichever Debian packages provide the development headers and runtime
> dependencies respectively?
>
> (that is, add the libfoo-dev to ts-xen-build-prep and the libfoo to
> ts-xen-install)

I can take a look at this although I'm not familiar with osstest...

>
> Ian.
>
> .
>

-- 
Thanks,
Yang.