From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Andrea Claudi <aclaudi@redhat.com>, Ying Xu <yinxu@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] lib: move rtnl_echo_talk from libnetlink to utils
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:28:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230713152846.5735066e@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZK4Z8j7hFHcjWv1i@Laptop-X1>
On Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:11:46 +0800
Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > compatibility if an application links with it. Collect2 should be
> > using a supported library like libmnl instea.
>
> It's not about compatibility. If an application linked with netlink.a, the
> build will failed. e.g.
Applications that link with libnetlink.a do so at their own risk.
It is not guaranteed to be a standalone library.
If it worked be for, that was by accident not intention.
The reason libnetlink.a is not supported is that the same reason that
kernel API's are not fixed. Also, there is no test suite for just libnetlink.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-13 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-11 7:31 [PATCH iproute2] lib: move rtnl_echo_talk from libnetlink to utils Hangbin Liu
2023-07-11 16:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2023-07-12 3:11 ` Hangbin Liu
2023-07-13 22:28 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2023-07-14 3:28 ` Hangbin Liu
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