Re: Dropping support for libnl1 and libnl2?

[Robby Workman <robby rlworkman net>]

On Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:11:49 -0600
Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> All the major distros appear to have been shipping libnl3.x for quite
> a while already, and it's becoming increasingly difficult to support
> libnl1.x and 2.x with some of the newer features that are being added
> to NM like bridging, bonding, vlan, etc.
> 
> So, given that libnl 3.2.7 has been out for almost a year
> (2012-01-20), and most major distros are packaging it (Ubuntu,
> OpenSUSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch), would anyone object to libnl
> >= 3.2.7 as a build requirement for the next release of
> >NetworkManager?


We've got 3.2.11 in the last stable Slackware, so sure, that's fine
with us, even if we're not "major" enough to warrant concern ;-)

-RW