David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> writes: > On 11/28/20 11:16 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> Luca wants to put this in Debian 11 (good idea), but that means: >> >> 1. It has to work with 5.10 release and kernel. >> 2. Someone has to test it. >> 3. The 5.10 is a LTS kernel release which means BPF developers have >> to agree to supporting LTS releases. >> >> If someone steps up to doing this then I would be happy to merge it now >> for 5.10. Otherwise it won't show up until 5.11. > > It would be good for Bullseye to have the option to use libbpf with > iproute2. If Debian uses the 5.10 kernel then it should use the 5.10 > version of iproute2 and 5.10 version libbpf. All the components align > with consistent versioning. > > I have some use cases I can move from bpftool loading to iproute2 as > additional testing to what Hangbin has already done. If that goes well, > I can re-send the patch series against iproute2-main branch by next weekend.
This is fine by me - there's nothing in the iproute2 patches that depends on any particular version of libbpf newer than 0.1.0 (that was the whole point), so it's just a matter of when you guys want to merge it. > It would be good for others (Jesper, Toke, Jiri) to run their own > testing as well. I'll do some manual testing, and once we get this into RHEL it'll be part of automated testing there as well. The latter may take a while, though, so don't count on it for any initial verification... -Toke
