linux-kernel - Re:Re: [PATCH] samples/bpf: Add sample usage for BPF_PROG_TYPE

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Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2023 00:06:53 +0800 (CST)
From:   "David Wang" <00107082@....com>
To:     "Alexei Starovoitov" <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     "Florian Westphal" <fw@...len.de>,
        "Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@...nel.org>,
        "Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        "Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@...nel.org>,
        "Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@...ux.dev>,
        "Song Liu" <song@...nel.org>,
        "Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@...ux.dev>,
        "John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        "KP Singh" <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        "Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@...gle.com>,
        "Hao Luo" <haoluo@...gle.com>, "Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re:Re: [PATCH] samples/bpf: Add sample usage for
 BPF_PROG_TYPE_NETFILTER


At 2023-09-05 23:49:41, "Alexei Starovoitov" <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 4:11 AM David Wang <00107082@....com> wrote:

>> >
>> >Yes, but only in selftests/bpf.
>> >samples/bpf/ are not tested and bit rot heavily.
>>
>> Hi Alexei,
>>
>> I need to know whether samples/bpf is still a good place to put code.
>> I will put the code in another open source project  for bpf samples,  mentioned by Toke.
>> But I still want to put it in samples/bpf , since the code only compile/work with new kernel.
>>
>> Need your feedback on this,  could this code be kept in samples/bpf? :)
>
>Sorry, but we don't accept new code to samples/bpf/.
>Everything in there  will be moved/removed.
>If you want to stay in the kernel selftests/bpf is the only place and
>it's gotta be the real test and not just a sample.


Sad to hear this.... 
Anyway, thank you and all others who took time reviewing this.

David