netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] tools: add bpftool

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Message-ID: <20170927014456.7f4198f7@cakuba>
Date:   Wed, 27 Sep 2017 01:44:56 +0100
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        alexei.starovoitov@...il.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        hannes@...essinduktion.org, oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] tools: add bpftool

On Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:32:31 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> On 9/26/17 9:35 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > I'm looking for a home for bpftool, Daniel suggested that 
> > tools/net could be a good place, since there are only BPF
> > utilities there already.
> > 
> > The tool should be complete for simple use cases and we
> > will continue extending it as we go along.  E.g. providing
> > disassembly of loaded programs directly using LLVM library
> > and JSON output are high on the priority list.  
> 
> I have found this to be a very useful tool. Thanks for working on it.
> Moving it into the kernel will make it easier to build since it relies
> on libbpf and other files from the kernel tree.
> 
> One change I have made locally is to link against libbpf.a. That way I
> only need to copy one file to a system to use it.

Thanks!  I made the same change here, this patchset will have bpftool
linked against libbpf statically.