From: David L. Cantrell Jr. <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> [Here I sit waiting for RHEL-5 nightlies...] A while ago, I wrote a lot of netlink code for loader in anticipation of the exciting world of IPv6. I wrote the code from scratch rather than using libnl because that was the way of loader. Also, I didn't really like libnl back then, so, you know how that goes (NIH! NIH! NIH!). Also, it was kind of interesting. Since we have moved to a dynamic loader, I have run through nl.c in the isys subdirectory and rewritten the two functions we call in isys.c and from loader. I now just call libnl to do all the work. No more dependency on glib either. This patch is the beginning of a simplification of the networking code in isys and loader. I don't plan on doing anything else in this area before F-9 goes out, but I'm getting things ready for post F-9 rawhide. Advantages: * A new library we can blame when netlink stuff fails. * Less code in isys--everyone likes minus signs in diffstat. * No more glib dependency. Comments, opinions, theorems...please direct them to my inbox. -- David Cantrell <dcantrell@xxxxxxxxxx> Red Hat / Honolulu, HI _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
