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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: daniel@iogearbox.net, alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com,
	davem@davemloft.net, hannes@stressinduktion.org,
	oss-drivers@netronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] tools: add bpftool
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 17:32:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5522855a-937f-b2cb-4c74-3448d1680b10@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170926153522.31500-1-jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>

On 9/26/17 9:35 AM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> I'm looking for a home for bpftool, Daniel suggested that 
> tools/net could be a good place, since there are only BPF
> utilities there already.
> 
> The tool should be complete for simple use cases and we
> will continue extending it as we go along.  E.g. providing
> disassembly of loaded programs directly using LLVM library
> and JSON output are high on the priority list.

I have found this to be a very useful tool. Thanks for working on it.
Moving it into the kernel will make it easier to build since it relies
on libbpf and other files from the kernel tree.

One change I have made locally is to link against libbpf.a. That way I
only need to copy one file to a system to use it.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-26 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-26 15:35 [PATCH net-next 0/2] tools: add bpftool Jakub Kicinski
2017-09-26 15:35 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] tools: rename tools/net directory to tools/bpf Jakub Kicinski
2017-09-26 21:04   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-09-26 22:19   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-09-26 15:35 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] tools: bpf: add bpftool Jakub Kicinski
2017-09-26 21:06   ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-09-26 22:24   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2017-09-26 23:02     ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-09-27 10:45       ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-27 10:55         ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-09-27 10:57         ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-09-27 11:19           ` Jesper Dangaard Brouer
2017-09-27 11:49             ` Markus Heiser
2017-09-28 13:59   ` Jakub Kicinski
2017-09-28 15:48     ` David Miller
2017-09-26 23:32 ` David Ahern [this message]
2017-09-27  0:44   ` [PATCH net-next 0/2] tools: " Jakub Kicinski

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