Daniel Borkmann <dan...@iogearbox.net> writes:

> Back in the days when developing lib/bpf.c, it was explicitly done as
> built-in for iproute2 so that it doesn't take years for users to
> actually get to the point where they can realistically make use of it.
> If we were to extend the internal lib/bpf.c to similar feature state
> as libbpf today, how is that different in the bigger picture compared
> to sync or submodule... so far noone complained about lib/bpf.c.

Except that this whole effort started because lib/bpf.c is slowly
bitrotting into oblivion? If all the tools are dynamically linked
against libbpf, that's only one package the distros have to keep
up-to-date instead of a whole list of tools. How does that make things
*worse*?

-Toke

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