Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 3/5] lib: add libbpf support

From: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 16:13:23 +0100

David Ahern <[email-masked]> writes:

> On 10/22/20 9:38 PM, Hangbin Liu wrote:
>> Note: ip/ipvrf.c is not convert to use libbpf as it only encodes a few
>> instructions and load directly.
>
> for completeness, libbpf should be able to load a program from a buffer
> as well.

It can, but the particular use in ipvrf is just loading half a dozen
instructions defined inline in C - there's no object files, BTF or
anything. So why bother with going through libbpf in this case? The
actual attachment is using the existing code anyway...

-Toke