netdev - Re: [PATCHv3 iproute2-next 0/5] iproute2: add libbpf support

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Message-ID: <20201103102351.13a2bb9a@hermes.local>
Date:   Tue, 3 Nov 2020 10:23:51 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        Hangbin Liu <haliu@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jiri Benc <jbenc@...hat.com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 iproute2-next 0/5] iproute2: add libbpf support

On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:47:00 -0800
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 9:36 AM David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/3/20 1:46 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:  
> > > I thought last time this discussion came up there was consensus that the
> > > submodule could be an explicit opt in for the configure script at least?  
> >
> > I do not recall Stephen agreeing to that, and I certainly did not.  
> 
> Daniel,
> 
> since David is deaf to technical arguments,
> how about we fork iproute2 and maintain it separately?

A submodule is not a practical viable option.

Please come back when you are ready to use distro libbpf packages.
This seems a microcosm of the Linux packaging problem that was discussed
around Kubernetes and "vendorizaton"