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Date:   Thu, 2 May 2019 13:18:17 -0700
From:   Y Song <ys114321@...il.com>
To:     William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>, blp@....org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf] libbpf: add libbpf_util.h to header install.

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 11:34 AM William Tu <u9012063@...il.com> wrote:
>
> The libbpf_util.h is used by xsk.h, so add it to
> the install headers.

Can we try to change code a little bit to avoid exposing libbpf_util.h?
Originally libbpf_util.h is considered as libbpf internal.
I am not strongly against this patch. But would really like to see
whether we have an alternative not exposing libbpf_util.h.

>
> Reported-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@....org>
> Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>
> ---
>  tools/lib/bpf/Makefile | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
> index c6c06bc6683c..f91639bf5650 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
> +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/Makefile
> @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ install_headers:
>                 $(call do_install,bpf.h,$(prefix)/include/bpf,644); \
>                 $(call do_install,libbpf.h,$(prefix)/include/bpf,644); \
>                 $(call do_install,btf.h,$(prefix)/include/bpf,644); \
> +               $(call do_install,libbpf_util.h,$(prefix)/include/bpf,644); \
>                 $(call do_install,xsk.h,$(prefix)/include/bpf,644);
>
>  install_pkgconfig: $(PC_FILE)
> --
> 2.7.4
>