Re: Dropping support for libnl1 and libnl2?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 11:19 +0100, Dan Winship wrote:
> 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?

I ported them over to libnl3 a year ago, so consider me the new
upstream:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dcbw/wimax/
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dcbw/wimax-tools/

Without doing that, we never could have used libnl3 with NetworkManager,
because the wimax library was linked with libnl1, and NetworkManager
with libnl3, so whenever you loaded NM's wimax plugin hilarity ensued.

Dan