From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Graf Subject: Re: netfilter support in libnl Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:59:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20070903095915.GF18480@postel.suug.ch> References: <46DB9716.1020400@snapgear.com> <46DBD453.5040505@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Netfilter Developer Mailing List , Philip Craig To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46DBD453.5040505@trash.net> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org Errors-To: netfilter-devel-bounces@lists.netfilter.org List-Id: netfilter-devel.vger.kernel.org * Patrick McHardy 2007-09-03 11:30 > Philip Craig wrote: > > There have been comments in the past on this list about using libnl > > for the netfilter netlink support, and since I would like to use a > > common library api for all the netlink interfaces, I decided to give > > it a go. These patches are the result of that. > > > > Any comments welcome, particularly about whether this is still > > something that is desired. > > > Very nice, I think its still desirable to avoid having to > use multiple pretty similar libraries in case you also need > to use other netlink subsystems. I agree, it would be great if we could get rid of the almost duplicate effort of nfnl attributes etc. > And I think LGPL is a much better choice than GPL for stuff > like this. This is my fault, I intedend to use LGPL as stated in the COPYING for some brain dead reason have been copying GPL headers from file to file. I'm fixing this up right now. > If you want to merge this upstream, you should probably CC > Thomas.