netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 14/17] selftests/bpf: omit skeleton generation for multi-linked BPF object files

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Message-ID: <46159a14-9470-883d-e948-b09ef9bd122c@fb.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 17:13:12 -0700
From:   Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <ast@...com>, <daniel@...earbox.net>
CC:     <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 14/17] selftests/bpf: omit skeleton generation
 for multi-linked BPF object files



On 4/16/21 1:24 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> Skip generating individual BPF skeletons for files that are supposed to be
> linked together to form the final BPF object file. Very often such files are
> "incomplete" BPF object files, which will fail libbpf bpf_object__open() step,
> if used individually, thus failing BPF skeleton generation. This is by design,
> so skip individual BPF skeletons and only validate them as part of their
> linked final BPF object file and skeleton.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>