netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] tools: bpftool: fix reading from /proc/config.gz

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Message-ID: <6154af6c-4f24-4b0a-25c2-a8a1d6c9948f@iogearbox.net>
Date:   Mon, 12 Aug 2019 11:19:11 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Peter Wu <peter@...ensteyn.nl>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>,
        Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@...ronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tools: bpftool: fix reading from /proc/config.gz

On 8/9/19 2:39 AM, Peter Wu wrote:
> /proc/config has never existed as far as I can see, but /proc/config.gz
> is present on Arch Linux. Add support for decompressing config.gz using
> zlib which is a mandatory dependency of libelf. Replace existing stdio
> functions with gzFile operations since the latter transparently handles
> uncompressed and gzip-compressed files.
> 
> Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@...ronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@...ensteyn.nl>

Applied, thanks. Please follow-up with a zlib feature test as suggested
by Jakub.