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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Netfilter Development <netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH libnfnetlink 1/1] src: Minimally resurrect doxygen documentation
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 13:54:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191026115430.34nqmavkjvvbo64i@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191026074000.GA17706@dimstar.local.net>

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 06:40:00PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 10:48:36PM +0200, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 02:31:42AM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote:
> > > BTW, ldd of my app shows libnfnetlink.so although it doesn't use any deprecated
> > > functions. Is that expected?
> > 
> > Yes, there is still code in the libraries that refer to libnfnetlink.
> > Replacing some of that code should be feasible via libmnl, it is a
> > task that has been in my TODO list for long time. There's always
> > something with more priority in the queue.
> 
> Using *nm -D* (dynamic symbols) I see
>  - libmnl.so: no U (undefined) symbols satisfied by libnfnetlink.so
>  - nfq (my app): no U symbols satisfied by libnfnetlink.so
>  - libnetfilter_queue.so: many U symbols satisfied by libnfnetlink.so
> Only way to tell whether the libnfnetlink.so references in libnetfilter_queue.so
> are confined to the deprecated functions would be to do a build without them.
> If that eliminates libnfnetlink references, then maybe we could think about a
> configure option to not build them (also excluding them from the doco).

Apparently, there are many people using this old libnetfilter_queue
API, we cannot get rid of it. We could though explore using libmnl
instead of libnfnetlink from the old libnetfilter_queue API
implementation.

> But that's for another day - I'll get back to libnetfilter_queue doco for now.

Agreed.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-26 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-14  2:02 [PATCH libnfnetlink 0/1] Minimally resurrect doxygen documentation Duncan Roe
2019-10-14  2:02 ` [PATCH libnfnetlink 1/1] src: " Duncan Roe
2019-10-23 11:13   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-23 15:12     ` Duncan Roe
2019-10-23 15:58       ` Jeremy Sowden
2019-10-23 20:55       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-23 15:31     ` Duncan Roe
2019-10-23 20:48       ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-24 23:51         ` Duncan Roe
2019-10-26  7:40         ` Duncan Roe
2019-10-26 11:54           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2019-10-26  5:19     ` Duncan Roe
2019-10-26  6:59       ` [PATCH libnfnetlink v2 0/2] " Duncan Roe
2019-10-26  6:59       ` [PATCH libnfnetlink v2 1/2] " Duncan Roe
2019-10-26  6:59       ` [PATCH libnfnetlink v2 2/2] Make it clear that this library is deprecated Duncan Roe
2019-10-27  8:49       ` [PATCH libnfnetlink v3 0/2] Minimally resurrect doxygen documentation Duncan Roe
2019-10-27  8:49       ` [PATCH libnfnetlink v3 1/2] " Duncan Roe
2019-11-04 17:28         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-27  8:49       ` [PATCH libnfnetlink v3 2/2] Make it clear that this library is deprecated Duncan Roe
2019-11-04 17:28         ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2019-10-15 22:52 ` [PATCH libnfnetlink 0/1] Minimally resurrect doxygen documentation Duncan Roe

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