Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [RFC v2 0/5] batman-adv netlink query API

Sven Eckelmann
2016-04-20T07:39:08Z

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On Wednesday 20 April 2016 09:32:19 Matthias Schiffer wrote:
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> As I've mentioned before, regarding the batctl support, I'd love to see a
> little library ("libbatadv"?) on top of libnl that could be used by batctl,
> alfred and other monitoring tools (like the ones we are using in the Gluon
> Freifunk firmwares).

Hm, then we would have to make everything ABI stable. So we would loose the
flexibility of netlink (adding more fields) again just to keep the library
stable.

Or what kind of functionality should this library expose that can be easily be
kept stable?

Kind regards,
Sven

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