On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:28:45 -0700 sdf@google.com wrote:

Putting it into iproute2 will make it carry a 'networking' badge on it
meaning no other subsystem would look into it.

Good point.

I'd rather make netlink more generic (s/netlink/kernelink/?) and remove
CONFIG_NET dependency to address https://lwn.net/Articles/897202/

I think people just use that as an excuse, TBH.