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From: Pavel Simerda <psimerda@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: richard alpe <richard.alpe@ericsson.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, tipc-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] tipc: introduce TIPC configuration tool
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 06:23:35 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1689829731.5883859.1433413415372.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150521144340.1b112c0a@urahara>

----- 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? Or is
there a good reason to use an external netlink library as well as an internal one?

Cheers,

Pavel

> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-04 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07 13:07 [PATCH iproute2] tipc: introduce TIPC configuration tool richard.alpe
2015-05-07 13:07 ` [PATCH iproute2] tipc: add new " richard.alpe
2015-05-21 21:43 ` [PATCH iproute2] tipc: introduce " Stephen Hemminger
2015-06-04 10:23   ` Pavel Simerda [this message]
2015-06-04 11:40     ` Richard Alpe
2015-06-04 17:30       ` Pavel Simerda

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