On 11/12/20 4:20 PM, Daniel Borkmann wrote: > built-in given it otherwise comes with the base distro already. But then > my question is what is planned here as deprecation process for the built-in > lib/bpf.c code? I presume we'll remove it eventually to move on?
It will need to follow the established deprecation pattern for N, N-1 releases (N here refers to distro LTS releases, not kernel or iproute2 releases). Meaning, for the next few years it needs to exist as an option when libbpf is not installed. After that we can add a deprecation warning that libbpf is preferred, and then at some point in the distant future it can be removed.
