Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 5/7] libbpf: move bpf_{helpers,endian,tracing}.h into libbpf

From: Jiri Benc <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2019 17:29:51 +0200

On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 11:30:26 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Surely for distroes tho - they would have kernel headers matching the
> kernel release they ship. If parts of libbpf from GH only work with
> the latest kernel, distroes should ship libbpf from the kernel source,
> rather than GH.

I don't see a problem here for distros. Distros control both the kernel
and libbpf, there's no problem in keeping those in sync.

Packaging libbpf from the kernel source would not help anything -
updating libbpf would still require a new kernel. There's no difference
between updating libbpf from a github repo or from the kernel source,
as far as dependencies are concerned.

 Jiri