netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/8] bpf: Add fprobe link

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Message-ID: <CAADnVQ+hTWbvNgnvJpAeM_-Ui2-G0YSM3QHB9G2+2kWEd4-Ymw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 Feb 2022 09:09:53 -0800
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <olsajiri@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] bpf: Add fprobe link

On Wed, Feb 2, 2022 at 5:53 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> hi,
> this patchset adds new link type BPF_LINK_TYPE_FPROBE that attaches kprobe
> program through fprobe API [1] instroduced by Masami.

No new prog type please.
I thought I made my reasons clear earlier.
It's a multi kprobe. Not a fprobe or any other name.
The kernel internal names should not leak into uapi.