Re: [PATCH] Revert kheaders feature

[Joel Fernandes]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 1:33 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> > > like the BTF approach is significantly better and said users are
> > > hopefully moving forward to it quickly, and if they can't move
> > > forward, then they're likely also not going to move forward to newer
> > > kernels either?
> >
> > I think BCC runs on a lot of upstream machines. I think the migration
> > strategy is a matter of opinion, one way is to take it out and cause some
> > pain in the hope that users/tools will migrate soon (while probably carrying
> > the reverted patches out of tree). Another is to migrate the tools first and
> > then take it out (which has its own disadvantages such as introducing even
> > more users of it while it is still upstream).
>
> Do we "know" what tools today require this, and what needs to be done to
> "fix" them?  If we don't know that, then there's no way to drop this,
> pretty much ever :(

Is there a real reason to drop it or a problem dropping this solves though?

thanks,

  - Joel