> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 19:17
> To: Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Yongseok Koh <ys...@mellanox.com>; Shahaf Shuler
> <shah...@mellanox.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "net/mlx5: fix master device Netlink socket
> sharing"
>
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 05:31:45 +0000
> Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com> wrote:
>
> > This reverts commit e28111ac9864af09e826241a915dfff87a9c00ad.
> > The netlink requests are replaced by ifindex caching and not needed
> > anymore.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com>
> > Fixes: e28111ac9864 ("net/mlx5: fix master device Netlink socket
> > sharing")
>
>
> Can mlx5 drop dependency o netlink (libmnl)?
What do you mean? Dependency on libmnl is already dropped.
The few remaining Netlink requests do not use libmnl (but does libnl).
With best regards, Slava
