On 2/3/20 8:41 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote: > On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 5:46 PM David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On 2/3/20 5:56 PM, Andrii Nakryiko wrote: >>> Great! Just to disambiguate and make sure we are in agreement, my hope >>> here is that iproute2 can completely delegate to libbpf all the ELF >>> >> >> iproute2 needs to compile and continue working as is when libbpf is not >> available. e.g., add check in configure to define HAVE_LIBBPF and move >> the existing code and move under else branch. > > Wouldn't it be better to statically compile against libbpf in this > case and get rid a lot of BPF-related code and simplify the rest of > it? This can be easily done by using libbpf through submodule, the > same way as BCC and pahole do it. > iproute2 compiles today and runs on older distributions and older distributions with newer kernels. That needs to hold true after the move to libbpf.
