Re: [PATCH 0/4] tracing: improve symbolic printing

[Johannes Berg]

On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 09:22 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 
> Potentially naive question - the trace point holds enum skb_drop_reason.
> The user space can get the names from BTF. Can we not teach user space
> to generically look up names of enums in BTF?

I'll note that, unrelated to the discussion about whether or not we
could use BTF, we couldn't do it in this case anyway since the whole
drop reasons aren't captured in enum skb_drop_reason, that contains only
the core ones, and now other subsystems are adding their own somewhat
dynamically later.

johannes