From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88E6E1094A; Wed, 4 Oct 2023 16:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4510CC433C7; Wed, 4 Oct 2023 16:34:17 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2023 12:35:24 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Jakub Kicinski Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] tracing: improve symbolic printing Message-ID: <20231004123524.27feeae7@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20231004092205.02c8eb0b@kernel.org> References: <20230921085129.261556-5-johannes@sipsolutions.net> <20231004092205.02c8eb0b@kernel.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.19.1 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 09:22:05 -0700 Jakub Kicinski 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". -- Steve