netdev - Re: [bpf-next PATCH v3 0/2] bpftool support for sockmap use cases

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Date:   Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:17:26 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, ast@...nel.org, daniel@...earbox.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bpf-next PATCH v3 0/2] bpftool support for sockmap use cases

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 11:19:44AM -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> The first patch adds support for attaching programs to maps. This is
> needed to support sock{map|hash} use from bpftool. Currently, I carry
> around custom code to do this so doing it using standard bpftool will
> be great.
> 
> The second patch adds a compat mode to ignore non-zero entries in
> the map def. This allows using bpftool with maps that have a extra
> fields that the user knows can be ignored. This is needed to work
> correctly with maps being loaded by other tools or directly via
> syscalls.
> 
> v3: add bash completion and doc updates for --mapcompat

Applied, Thanks