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Date:   Mon, 7 Oct 2019 19:16:45 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
Cc:     Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next] bpftool: fix bpftool build by switching to bpf_object__open_file()

On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 7:00 PM Jakub Kicinski
<jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 15:56:04 -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
> > index 43fdbbfe41bb..27da96a797ab 100644
> > --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
> > +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c
> > @@ -1092,9 +1092,7 @@ static int do_run(int argc, char **argv)
> >  static int load_with_options(int argc, char **argv, bool first_prog_only)
> >  {
> >       struct bpf_object_load_attr load_attr = { 0 };
> > -     struct bpf_object_open_attr open_attr = {
> > -             .prog_type = BPF_PROG_TYPE_UNSPEC,
> > -     };
> > +     enum bpf_prog_type common_prog_type = BPF_PROG_TYPE_UNSPEC;
> >       enum bpf_attach_type expected_attach_type;
> >       struct map_replace *map_replace = NULL;
> >       struct bpf_program *prog = NULL, *pos;
>
> Please maintain reverse xmas tree..

There are exceptions. I don't think it's worth doing everywhere.