[PATCH 1/2] libnl: add libnl-cli library

[Paul Spooren]

Jan 16, 2021 2:19:15 AM Pavel Šimerda <code at simerda.eu>:

> On 1/16/21 12:50 PM, Petr Štetiar wrote:
>> Pavel Šimerda <code at simerda.eu> [2021-01-16 00:23:01]:
>> Hi,
>> My perspective is that we are working on *hardware enablement* here. 
At
>>> least some switch chips support Link Aggregation in addition to 
hardware
>>> switching and VLAN filtering. This will be handled by offloading the 
LAG
>>> configuration from the kernel team driver.
>> we're trying to keep the main tree minimal for details see following 
link:
>>   
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2019-August/024109.html
>
> Hey Petr,
>
> is this an idea in progress or is OpenWRT already heading towards that 
goal?

It's an ongoing progress. If you look at the Git log multiple packages 
were moved over the last weeks.

>
>
>>    * The libteam package to support the team module (new package)
>>>        - Submitted in PATCH 2/2.
>> This one looks like material for packages feed.
>
> So what is the correct approach? Please see my questions below.
>
> 1) Is it okay to modify libnl to build and distribute the libnl-cli 
package so that I can base the libteam package on it?
>
> 2) How should I handle the netifd team module dependency on libteam to 
get it accepted to netifd code base?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pavel Šimerda
>
>> -- ynezz
>>
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