Heads up: bumping libnl to v3 in rawhide/F17 soon

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 11/08/2011 06:10 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At some point here I'm going to bump libnl to version 3 in rawhide.  The
> libnl 1.1 we use today is way out of date and we want version 3 for the
> enhanced capabilities like bonding, bridging, vlan, etc.  This *does*

- does it mean NM in F17 will handle bridging?

> mean an API break, so packages will need to be updated for libnl3.  The
> majority of the changes are simply function renames and changed
> structure names.  There's no porting guide that I'm aware of but I and
> others working on NetworkManager have spent time porting from libnl1.1
> to libnl3 this cycle so we can point you in the right direction.
>
> Dan
>