netdev - Re: [PATCH] libbpf: Remove from kernel tree.

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Date:   Sun, 18 Jul 2021 21:04:16 +0200
From:   Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>,
        Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
        Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@...el.com>,
        Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libbpf: Remove from kernel tree.

On 7/18/21 8:50 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> libbpf shipped by the kernel is outdated and has problems. Remove it.
> 
> Current version of libbpf is available at
> 
> https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b07015ebd7bbadb06a95a5105d9f6b4ed5817b2f.camel@debian.org/
> Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>

NAK, I'm not applying any of this. If there are issues, then fix them. If
you would have checked tools/lib/bpf/ git history, you would have found
that libbpf is under active development in the upstream kernel tree and
you could have spared yourself this patch.