Re: [PATCH] bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 12:26 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:03:14 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 11:56 AM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > How so? It's using in-tree headers instead of system ones.
> > > Many samples seem to be doing the same thing.
> >
> > There is no such thing as "usr/include" in the kernel build and source trees.
>
> Hm. I thought bpfilter somehow depends on make headers. But it doesn't
> seem to. Reverting now.

Thanks!
Right. To explain it a bit further for the author of the patch:
Some samples makefiles use this -I usr/include pattern.
That's different. This local "usr/include" is a result of 'make
headers_install'.
For samples and such it's ok to depend on that, but bpfilter is
the part of the kernel build.
It cannot depend on the 'make headers_install' step,
so the fix has to be different.

> > > > Also please don't take bpf patches.
> > >
> > > You had it marked it as netdev in your patchwork :/
> >
> > It was delegated automatically by the patchwork system.
> > I didn't have time to reassign, but you should have known better
> > when you saw 'bpfilter' in the subject.
>
> The previous committers for bpfilter are almost all Dave, so I checked
> your patchwork to make sure and it was netdev...

It was my fault. I was sloppy in the past and didn't pay enough attention
to bpfilter and it started to bitrot because Dave was applying patches
with his normal SLAs while I was silent.