[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] Fix BPF test program loading issues

Richard Palethorpe rpalethorpe@suse.de
Thu Feb 6 12:02:07 CET 2020


Hello,

Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@suse.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>> > That's only true if we are building and external interface for a
>> > library, here we are just avoiding copy&paste by the simpliest means
>> > available.
>>
>> I am building external interface for a library. The library is called
>> bpf_common. But if you still disagree with splitting the executable code
>> into a separate file to make the header more readable for developers of
>> future BPF tests, I'll gladly unassign myself from this task and go work
>> on something else.
>
> Can we please discuss things calmly and rationally? If you want to give
> up on your patch that's fine, however if you want to continue to discuss
> technical details, let's do it without emotions, okay?

Honestly this is a style issue, so we can exchange one or two opinions,
but then just decide Cyril is right (because he has survived as
maintainer for X years with similar ideas about style) and move on to
things where the universe proves you right or wrong in the time it takes
to compile and run your code.

>
> Getting back to the technical point of the discussion, I still do not
> consider that these three functions are complex enough to be split into
> header and C source, but I do not have such strong opinion about that.
>
> So if you really think that it should be separated like that at least
> put the change that moves the code into a separate patch, since that is
> unrelated change to introduction of the new function.
>
> --
> Cyril Hrubis
> chrubis@suse.cz


--
Thank you,
Richard.


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