On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:47:00 -0800 Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 9:36 AM David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 11/3/20 1:46 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > > > I thought last time this discussion came up there was consensus that the > > > submodule could be an explicit opt in for the configure script at least? > > > > I do not recall Stephen agreeing to that, and I certainly did not. > > Daniel, > > since David is deaf to technical arguments, > how about we fork iproute2 and maintain it separately? A submodule is not a practical viable option. Please come back when you are ready to use distro libbpf packages. This seems a microcosm of the Linux packaging problem that was discussed around Kubernetes and "vendorizaton"