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Message-ID: <5a8c19bb-1e4a-e546-e75f-0f7a592b3d5b@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Fri, 23 Nov 2018 22:49:48 +0100
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     "Nikita V. Shirokov" <tehnerd@...nerd.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 1/1] libbpf: make bpf_object__open default to
 UNSPEC

On 11/23/2018 09:58 PM, Nikita V. Shirokov wrote:
> currently by default libbpf's bpf_object__open requires
> bpf's program to specify  version in a code because of two things:
> 1) default prog type is set to KPROBE
> 2) KPROBE requires (in kernel/bpf/syscall.c) version to be specified
> 
> in this patch i'm changing default prog type to UNSPEC and also changing
> requirments for version's section to be present in object file.
> now it would reflect what we have today in kernel
> (only KPROBE prog type requires for version to be explicitly set).
> 
> v1 -> v2:
>  - RFC tag has been dropped
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nikita V. Shirokov <tehnerd@...nerd.com>

Applied, thanks!