On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 12:19:00 -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote: > I'll just quote myself here for your convenience. Sorry, I missed your original email for some reason. > Submodule is a way that I know of to make this better for end users. > If there are other ways to pull this off with shared library use, I'm > all for it, it will save the security angle that distros are arguing > for. E.g., if distributions will always have the latest libbpf > available almost as soon as it's cut upstream *and* new iproute2 > versions enforce the latest libbpf when they are packaged/released, > then this might work equivalently for end users. If Linux distros > would be willing to do this faithfully and promptly, I have no > objections whatsoever. Because all that matters is BPF end user > experience, as Daniel explained above. That's basically what we already do, for both Fedora and RHEL. Of course, it follows the distro release cycle, i.e. no version upgrades - or very limited ones - during lifetime of a particular release. But that would not be different if libbpf was bundled in individual projects. Jiri
