[Bug 1745478] Review Request: libbpf - The bpf library from kernel source

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745478



--- Comment #6 from Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Iñaki Ucar from comment #5)
> (In reply to Jiri Olsa from comment #3)
> > however, upstream team decided to keep and maintain GitHub libbpf
> > sources (which are regirarly sync from kernel tree) to maintain
> > compatibility in between distributions and mainly to have stable
> > relases of libbpf based on github tree tags rather then on random
> > kernel versions (from libbpf point of view)
> 
> But that GitHub mirror follows bpf-next, right? So the question is whether

right

> it could happen that an update of the standalone libbpf has a soname bump
> that makes it incompatible with the kernel versions packaged in Fedora
> (which cannot happen if libbpf is a subpackage of kernel-tools, because it
> has the same versioning and provides from the same "snapshot").

well at the moment nothing depends on libbpf and libbpf itself
checks on kernel features before using them, so I don't see any
possible incompatibility issue

new libbpf has the 'Epoch:1' set, so it takes over old libbpf smoothly

jirka

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