Re: Dropping support for libnl1 and libnl2?

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 12/06/2012 07:11 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?

In https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687630 it was noted that
the wimax libraries as shipped upstream only have support for libnl1.x,
and in Fedora we appear to be shipping a forked libnl3.x port of them.
What's the story there?

-- Dan