On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 09:54:31 -0700 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 12:35:24 -0400 Steven Rostedt 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? > > > > That puts a hard requirement to include BTF in builds where it was not > > needed before. I really do not want to build with BTF just to get access to > > these symbols. And since this is used by the embedded world, and BTF is > > extremely bloated, the short answer is "No". > > Dunno. BTF is there most of the time. It could make the life of > majority of the users far more pleasant. BTF isn't there for a lot of developers working in embedded who use this code. Most my users that I deal with have minimal environments, so BTF is a showstopper. > > I hope we can at least agree that the current methods of generating > the string arrays at C level are... aesthetically displeasing. I don't know, I kinda like it ;-) -- Steve
