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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/tap: renamed netlink functions
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 08:19:56 -0800
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On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:34:37 +0000
Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com> wrote:

> Functions like nl_recev and nl_send name clash functions in the
> libnl library (https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/).
> All functions declared in tap_netlink.h were decorated with tap_
> for consistency.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <radu.nicolau@intel.com>
> ---

This make sense to fix, but name clash should only matter if tap PMD and libnl
were statically linked in same application. Wouldn't that be a license violation.