netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests: net: Add cross-compilation support for BPF programs

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:54:48 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Björn Töpel <bjorn@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Björn Töpel <bjorn@...osinc.com>,
        Lina Wang <lina.wang@...iatek.com>,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests: net: Add cross-compilation support
 for BPF programs

On Sat, 2022-11-19 at 18:18 +0100, Björn Töpel wrote:
> From: Björn Töpel <bjorn@...osinc.com>
> 
> The selftests/net does not have proper cross-compilation support, and
> does not properly state libbpf as a dependency. Mimic/copy the BPF
> build from selftests/bpf, which has the nice side-effect that libbpf
> is built as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn@...osinc.com>
> ---
> Now that BPF builds are starting to show up in more places
> (selftests/net, and soon selftests/hid), maybe it would be cleaner to
> move parts of the BPF builds to lib.mk?

+1 on such follow-up ;)

Thanks!

Paolo