[Buildroot] [PATCH] package/fastd: bump version to 22

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Mon Oct 18 19:22:17 UTC 2021


On Sun, 17 Oct 2021 17:25:11 +0200
Alexander Dahl <post at lespocky.de> wrote:

> There's a new feature to offload L2TP to the Linux kernel, which depends
> on libmnl.  A new menu option was introduced for that.
> 
> It's possible to link an internal version of libmnl
> statically for smaller binary size on constraint targets, but this was
> not added to the buildroot package for complexity reasons (both build
> and licensing).
> 
> The COPYING file gained an additional paragraph for internal libmnl
> which does not apply, because internal libmnl is not used in the
> package.

Thanks for providing this explanation, very good!

> +config BR2_PACKAGE_FASTD_OFFLOAD_L2TP
> +	bool "l2tp offload support"
> +	default y

I don't think there was much reason for this option to be enabled by
default, and we try to not enable optional features by default in
Buildroot, so I dropped this "default y" when applying.

Applied to master this change. Thanks!

Best regards,

Thomas
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