[PATCH v2 1/3] common/mlx5: add Netlink event helpers

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 3/1/2022 12:15 PM, Dmitry Kozlyuk wrote:
> Introduce mlx5_nl_read_events() to read Netlink events
> (technically, messages) from a socket that was configured
> to listen for them via a new mlx5_nl_init() parameter.
> Add mlx5_nl_parse_link_status_update() helper
> to extract information from link-related events.
> This patch is a shared base for later fixes.
> 
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 

Hi Dmitry,

For clarification, this patch is not fix, but it is requested
to be backported to be able to backport fixes in this patchset,
right?

This looks OK to me, but cc'ed LTS maintainers in case they
have objection.

> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dkozlyuk at nvidia.com>
> Reviewed-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>


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