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

[Jiri Moskovcak]

On 11/09/2011 12:08 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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 libnl 1.1 we use today is way out of date and we want version 3 for the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

- that would be awesome

> want to bump libnl.

- sure, I didn't want it to sound like you have to support bridging if 
you bump to v3 ;)

Thank you,
Jirka

>
> 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
>>>
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