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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Subject: Re: [Nftables RFC] High level library proposal
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:31:13 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 01:15:10PM +0300, Tomasz Bursztyka wrote:
> Hi Eric and Pablo,
> >>>I don't get why you may need something different than libmnl or libnl.
> >>
> >>I don't think Tomasz need it but future application developers will
> >>really love to avoid to learn how netlink messages are build.
> 
> I actually need this flexibility. But indeed, it's thought to hide
> netlink IOs anyway.
[...]
> >I was referring to the driver switch that he wants to introduce to
> >select libnl or libmnl in runtime, it makes no sense to me.
> 
> It's easy to support it.
[...]

Again, you say you need this driver thing, but you will not escape
without explaining me why you need this.

Regards.