Re: [PATCH libnftnl] src: restore static array with expression operations

[Laurent Bercot <ska-devel@skarnet.org>]

On 23/03/2015 15:50, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> I would be surprised if the alternative provides a much smaller
> binary. Basically everything is referenced through the registered
> structures and functions called from there. I don't think it
> makes any difference.

  It's the case for now, but it might not be in the future. Else,
why keep libnftnl as a separate package from nftables?


> Well, we would like to keep the callbacks. We can continue to
> look for a different solution. But either way you will have
> tons of potentially unused functions in there since the library
> resolves a lot of things at runtime.

  I understand that, and don't mind the current 600k that much.
I am opposed to linking with --whole-archive on principle, but
I'll take any other solution that suits you. Any *clean* solution,
I mean. ;)

-- 
  Laurent