Re: [PATCH iproute2] tipc: introduce TIPC configuration tool

[Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>]

On 2015-06-04 12:23, Pavel Simerda wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stephen Hemminger" <stephen@networkplumber.org>
>> To: "richard alpe" <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
>> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
>> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 11:43:40 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tipc: introduce TIPC configuration tool
>>
>> On Thu, 7 May 2015 15:07:35 +0200
>> <richard.alpe@ericsson.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: Richard Alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>
>>>
>>> This is the new tipc tool that utilizes the relativly new TIPC netlink API
>>> in
>>> the kernel. Introducing this tool into iproute2 has been discussed
>>> previously.
>>>
>>> For more information about the design decisions of this tool, see the
>>> README
>>> file.
>>>
>>> There isn't yet a manpage for the this tool. I will start to write one once
>>> I
>>> submitted this for review.
>>>
>>> Richard Alpe (1):
>>>   tipc: add new TIPC configuration tool
>>
>> I went ahead and merged this.
>> It does add dependency on libmnl which the distribution maintainers will have
>> to add to their stuff.
> 
> Does the new dependency suggest the whole iproute2 is moving to libmnl?
That is what I was told and the reason I wrote "tipc" based on libmnl.

Regards
Richard

> Or is
> there a good reason to use an external netlink library as well as an internal one?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pavel
> 
>>
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