On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:21:17 +0000
Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> > -----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
Good to see, libnl is quite large, it would be good to drop that
(or use libmnl instead).
