On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:19:55 -0700, John Fastabend wrote: > Multiple map definition structures exist and user may have non-zero > fields in their definition that are not recognized by bpftool and > libbpf. The normal behavior is to then fail loading the map. Although > this is a good default behavior users may still want to load the map > for debugging or other reasons. This patch adds a --mapcompat flag > that can be used to override the default behavior and allow loading > the map even when it has additional non-zero fields. > > For now the only user is 'bpftool prog' we can switch over other > subcommands as needed. The library exposes an API that consumes > a flags field now but I kept the original API around also in case > users of the API don't want to expose this. The flags field is an > int in case we need more control over how the API call handles > errors/features/etc in the future. > > Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.fastab...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> Thank you!
