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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:58:39 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 08:42:34AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> wrote:
> > thanks, but version 1.30 didn't work in my tests - even pahole's master branch fails, only the next branch works...
> >

> > It seems that the 'old' pahole parses some kfuncs incorrectly, for example bpf_dynptr_slice().
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> Alan,
 
> the introduction of the 'next' branch screwed up the workflow for many people.
> Let's remove it and merge everything into master.
> People expect master branch to be the one where active development
> is happening and the source of truth for the latest features.

My bad, I've been away for too long, next is supposed to be with things
for a short while, testing for a few days, for CI consumption, then move
to master, rinse repeat.

I think we should go back to that model.

- Arnaldo