Re: [RFC PATCH v3 14/37] bpf tools: Collect config string from 'config' section

Alexei Starovoitov
2015-05-18T18:30:25Z

On 5/17/15 3:56 AM, Wang Nan wrote:
> A 'config' section is allowed to enable eBPF object file to pass
> something to user. libbpf doesn't use config string.
>
> To make further processing easiler, this patch converts '\0' in the
> whole config strings into '\n'
>
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
...
> + else if (strcmp(name, "config") == 0)
> + err = bpf_obj_config_init(obj, data->d_buf,
> + data->d_size);

the cover letter says that 'config' section name is unused right now.
Let's not add the code to parse it then.