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From: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute: Add support for extended ack to rtnl_talk
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 11:50:10 -0400
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On 17-05-04 10:41 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 08:27:35 -0600
>
>> On 5/4/17 3:36 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>>> What is the clear benefit/rationale of outsourcing this to
>>> libmnl? I always was the impression we should strive for as little
>>> dependencies as possible?
>>
>> +1
>
> Agreed, all else being equal iproute2 should be as self contained
> as possible since it is such a fundamental tool.
>

True, but:->
iproute2 _already_ depends on libmnl;-> (latest user being devlink).

cheers,
jamal