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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Toke Høiland-Jørgensen" <toke@redhat.com>,
	"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>,
	"Yonghong Song" <yhs@fb.com>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Latest libbpf fails to load programs compiled with old LLVM
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 11:59:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9d91a663-abd3-603d-de5e-26c572eeac05@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADnVQKdQdxAouvFGAWr+xT73=JZGkaKdTObsDW0GAnjcDzx9g@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/7/20 11:14 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 10:02 AM David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/7/20 9:20 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>> The user space library is not a kernel.
>>> The library will change its interface. It will remove functions, features, etc.
>>> That's what .map is for.
>>
>> So any user/package wanting to leverage libbpf can not expect stability
>> or consistency with its APIs?
> 
> If you're talking about iproute2 and your own convoluted definition of

your record player seems to be stuck. Could you give it a little bump so
it can move on to the next track? Thanks. I do work on other things
besides iproute2.

> stability and consistency then certainly not.
> 

Your statement has huge impacts on what users can expect from a library
and is inconsistent with other libraries I have used. Hence, my request
for clarification on your comment about 'changing interfaces, removing
functions and features.'

  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-07 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-03 17:55 Latest libbpf fails to load programs compiled with old LLVM Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-12-04  1:42 ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-04  9:34   ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-12-04 17:54     ` Yonghong Song
2020-12-04 19:23       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-07 10:59         ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-12-07 15:55           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-07 16:15             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-12-07 16:20               ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-07 16:51                 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-12-07 17:16                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-07 22:18                     ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-12-08  1:20                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-07 18:02                 ` David Ahern
2020-12-07 18:14                   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-12-07 18:59                     ` David Ahern [this message]
2020-12-08  2:47           ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-08 13:41             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2020-12-08 18:39               ` Andrii Nakryiko
2020-12-08 22:38                 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen

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