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

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 22:21 +0100, Jiri Moskovcak wrote:
> 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 libnl 1.1 we use today is way out of date and we want version 3 for the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?

That the current plan, yes.  But even if it didn't, we'd probably still
want to bump libnl.

Dan

> 
> > 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
> >
>