Re: [PATCH] libbpf: Remove from kernel tree.

[Michal Suchánek]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 09:04:16PM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
> On 7/18/21 8:50 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > libbpf shipped by the kernel is outdated and has problems. Remove it.
> > 
> > Current version of libbpf is available at
> > 
> > https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf
> > 
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b07015ebd7bbadb06a95a5105d9f6b4ed5817b2f.camel@xxxxxxxxxx/
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@xxxxxxx>
> 
> NAK, I'm not applying any of this. If there are issues, then fix them. If

They are fixed in the github version.

> you would have checked tools/lib/bpf/ git history, you would have found
> that libbpf is under active development in the upstream kernel tree and

So is the github version.

> you could have spared yourself this patch.

You could have spared me a lot of problems if there was only one source
for libbpf.

Can't you BPF people agree on one place to develop the library?

Thanks

Michal