netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] libbpf: support more map options

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Date:   Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:26:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     kraigatgoog@...il.com
Cc:     ast@...com, daniel@...earbox.net, brouer@...hat.com,
        chonggangli@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] libbpf: support more map options

From: Craig Gallek <kraigatgoog@...il.com>
Date: Mon,  2 Oct 2017 12:41:27 -0400

> From: Craig Gallek <kraig@...gle.com>
> 
> The functional change to this series is the ability to use flags when
> creating maps from object files loaded by libbpf.  In order to do this,
> the first patch updates the library to handle map definitions that
> differ in size from libbpf's struct bpf_map_def.
> 
> For object files with a larger map definition, libbpf will continue to load
> if the unknown fields are all zero, otherwise the map is rejected.  If the
> map definition in the object file is smaller than expected, libbpf will use
> zero as a default value in the missing fields.

Judging by the feedback I anticipate another spin of this series.