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Subject: Re: [PATCH iw 1/4] iw: nl80211: add NLA_F_NESTED to
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From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To:     Gokul Sivakumar <gokulkumar792@gmail.com>
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Date:   Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:25:01 +0200
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On Thu, 2021-09-23 at 21:53 +0530, Gokul Sivakumar wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 05:56:40PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Thu, 2021-09-23 at 21:23 +0530, Gokul Sivakumar wrote:
> > > The symbol NL_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3_5_0 is part of the libnl library and
> > > this will be defined when using the libnl library version >= 3.5.0.
> > > From libnl 3.5.0, the library itself handles setting NLA_F_NESTED flag
> > > when using nla_nest_start() lib function. Please refer the
> > > commit 7de65a0 ("attr: mark nested attributes as NLA_F_NESTED") in libnl
> > > gitub tree (https://github.com/thom311/libnl/commit/7de65a0).
> > > 
> > 
> > Huh ok, I guess I missed the memo on the (official?) tree moving ...
> > 
> > johannes
> > 
> 
> I beleive https://github.com/thom311/libnl/ is the official tree for libnl
> and I see Pull Requests are getting accepted in Github. Others can confirm!

Yeah, debian seems to be shipping from that tree too.

johannes