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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 00/10] Add support for resource abstraction
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2018 12:17:57 -0500 (EST)
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From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 09:58:51 -0700

> This is what I am getting at. Apparently, these resource patches for
> devlink require a patched libmnl to work properly. It is wrong for
> iproute2 to accept this patch and to build a devlink command that we
> know does not work. That means iproute2 needs a dependency on a specific
> version of libmnl - a version which does not yet exist because those
> changes have not been accepted and libmnl version released. Adding that
> dependency is going to inconvenience to all current users of the
> iproute2 repo.

+1