netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 00/12] BTF-to-C converter

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Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 14:12:22 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>
Cc:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 00/12] BTF-to-C converter

On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:59 AM Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com> wrote:
>
> This patch set adds BTF-to-C dumping APIs to libbpf, allowing to output
> a subset of BTF types as a compilable C type definitions. This is useful by
> itself, as raw BTF output is not easy to inspect and comprehend. But it's also
> a big part of BPF CO-RE (compile once - run everywhere) initiative aimed at
> allowing to write relocatable BPF programs, that won't require on-the-host
> kernel headers (and would be able to inspect internal kernel structures, not
> exposed through kernel headers).

Tested. Works. Applied. Thanks!