From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:28:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZLDA4dT+pF6AeTP3@Laptop-X1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230713152846.5735066e@hermes.local>
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 03:28:46PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.
Thanks for the explain.
Regards
Hangbin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-14 3:28 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
2023-07-14 3:28 ` Hangbin Liu [this message]
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