> -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 4:20 PM > To: Nicolau, Radu <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; Yigit, Ferruh <[email protected]>; > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/tap: renamed netlink functions > > On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:34:37 +0000 > Radu Nicolau <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Functions like nl_recev and nl_send name clash functions in the libnl > > library (https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/). > > All functions declared in tap_netlink.h were decorated with tap_ for > > consistency. > > > > Signed-off-by: Radu Nicolau <[email protected]> > > --- > > This make sense to fix, but name clash should only matter if tap PMD and > libnl were statically linked in same application. Wouldn't that be a license > violation.
The tap PMD is statically linked, but libnl is not, still this leads to symbol names clashing. Application that needs the functions from libnl (silently) ends up with the ones in tap PMD.
