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Re: Kernel header changes break glibc build

* Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> 2006-12-06 17:13
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 03:31:46PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote:
>  
> > At the time they were added they were meant to be exported but netlink
> > has evolved and we now have a type safe API.
> 
> Where?  AFAICS, netlink might be considered type-safe only within an
> address family...

The new interface can be found in net/netlink.h, it obsoletes the
old interface which is spread over linux/netlink.h and linux/rtnetlink.h

I'm removing the old bits as soon as I've finished converting all
its users.

An almost identical interface is provided to userspace by libnl.
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