libnl 3.2.10 broke iw [bisected]

Edward Sheldrake ejsheldrake at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 10:09:10 EDT 2012


After upgrading from libnl 3.2.9 to 3.2.10, iw no longer works. "iw
list" outputs nothing, and "iw dev wlan0 scan passive" fails with
"command failed: No such file or directory (-2)"

>From git bisect, the first bad commit was:

0c408aad1fc564b53d6382f1076019a7694adff4 is the first bad commit
commit 0c408aad1fc564b53d6382f1076019a7694adff4
Author: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com>
Date:   Fri Jun 1 12:59:24 2012 -0400

    genl: modify genl_ctrl_resolve and friends to allow for module auto-loading


iw works again if I revert that commit.



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