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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] iproute: Add support for extended ack to rtnl_talk
Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 08:27:35 -0600
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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