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. I hope we can at least agree that the current methods of generating the string arrays at C level are... aesthetically displeasing.
