From: "Alexis Lothoré" <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>
To: "Paul Chaignon" <paul.chaignon@gmail.com>,
"Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation)" <alexis.lothore@bootlin.com>
Cc: "Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
"Eduard Zingerman" <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
"Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi" <memxor@gmail.com>,
"Song Liu" <song@kernel.org>,
"Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
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"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Jesper Dangaard Brouer" <hawk@kernel.org>,
"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
"Stanislav Fomichev" <sdf@fomichev.me>,
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<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"Alan Maguire" <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] selftests/bpf: drop xdping tool
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:39:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DHZ1W95EQ4NC.2U9U2Z5YLCXWY@bootlin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aefAHLdVZaOmf1Os@mail.gmail.com>
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
--
Alexis Lothoré, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-21 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-17 15:33 [PATCH bpf-next] selftests/bpf: drop xdping tool Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation)
2026-04-21 18:21 ` Paul Chaignon
2026-04-21 18:39 ` Alexis Lothoré [this message]
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