Comment 7 for bug 801407

as a side note, while working on adding support for the most recent libnl versions (3.1, 3.2.1, 3.2.2) I ran into issue that strengthened my believe that libnl is a bloody mess and should not be continued much longer ... I landed fix for lp:448400 (pure kernel/rtnetlink backend) which - if working out well - will supersede all libnl backends AND should be stable and working on all linux kernels that are not completely ancient. If that arrives we can probably kill the whole plugin concept as you don't need to support multiple backends to support shipping binaries that work on various linux versions/distributiouns.