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From: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 00/10] Add support for resource abstraction
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 11:29:46 -0700
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On 1/3/18 11:17 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 07:14:16PM CET, dsa@cumulusnetworks.com wrote:
>> On 1/3/18 11:05 AM, Arkadi Sharshevsky wrote:
>>> As I stated this is a user-space bug which I fixed, and updated my repo
>>> so please pull. Devlink uses mnl,and currently mnl does not support
>>> extended ack. I added support for this in my local ver of libmnl:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/arkadis/libmnl.git
>>>
>>> On branch master, so you can check it out. Besides this bugs, which were
>>> userspace, can please specify what are the pending problems from your
>>> point of view? Thanks!
>>
>> devlink is in iproute2 package and it has extack support. See 'git log
>> lib/libnetlink.c'
> 
> Dave, devlink uses libmnl.
> 

Now I remember. You wrote it independently and but needed iproute2 be a
delivery vehicle. It uses none of the common infrastructure from
iproute2. Could we make this more difficult ....

Sometime in the next day I will jump through the hoops to get a proper
devlink command.