Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftests/bpf: drop xdping tool

Alexis Lothoré
2026-04-21T18:40:01Z

Hi Paul,
thanks for the feedback.

On Tue Apr 21, 2026 at 8:21 PM CEST, Paul Chaignon wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 05:33:02PM +0200, Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) wrote:

[...]

>> Drop test_xdping.sh and the corresponding xdping.c userspace part. Keep
>> the ebpf part (xdping_kern.c), as it is used by another test integrated
>> in test_progs (btf_dump)
>
> The xdping_kern object file is just used in bpf_dump to check we can
> parse the license as expected. You can replace that by any other test
> with a GPL license (ex., btf_type_tag_percpu.bpf.o) and remove
> xdping_kern.c.

Indeed. I'll let a bit of time in case anyone finally advocates to make
xdping stay, otherwise I'll send a v2 making the btf_dump test use
another prog meant to stay, so that I can also drop the xdping_kern
prog.

Thanks,

Alexis

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