netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Kconfig: discourage drop

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Message-ID: <aPEkQA6cF2-STgv2@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:58:40 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: Kconfig: discourage drop_monitor enablement

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 01:51:47PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Quoting Eric Dumazet:
> "I do not understand the fascination with net/core/drop_monitor.c [..]
> misses all the features, flexibility, scalability  that 'perf',
> eBPF tracing, bpftrace, .... have today."
> 
> Reword DROP_MONITOR kconfig help text to clearly state that its not
> related to perf-based drop monitoring and that its safe to disable
> this unless support for the older netlink-based tools is needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>

I think it is always good to guide people in the right direction.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>