[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] libnl: split into smaller libraries

Baptiste Jonglez baptiste at bitsofnetworks.org
Sat Oct 3 04:52:56 EDT 2015


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 03:42:26PM +0300, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> So,
> - bmon requires libnl-route
> - aircrack-ng requires libnl-genl
> - kismet i am not sure 100% ; maybe libnl-genl ; I did not want to
> investigate much deeper
> - ibrcommon requires libnl-genl and libnl-route
> - keepalived requires libnl-genl
> 
> Hopefully I got most of this right.
> 
> Now, here's the bloat for libnl:
> - 86856 Sep 22 14:00 libnl-3.so.200.16.1
> - 244304 Sep 22 14:00 libnl-route-3.so.200.16.1
> - 16096 Sep 22 14:00 libnl-genl-3.so.200.16.1
> - Seems libnl-nf is not needed. That's around 80k.
> - libnl-tiny is 30k

As far as I understood this, libnl-tiny is a drop-in replacement for
libnl-core.  Or is there a difference in functionality or API/ABI?

Is it possible for instance to depend on libnl-tiny and libnl-route?
(instead of libnl-core and libnl-route)

Thanks,
Baptiste (maintainer of bmon)
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