[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/1] package/bpftool: revert bpf_cookie patch to allow building

[Shahab Vahedi]

Hi Arnout,

On 2/8/23 17:36, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
> It's not clear to me why you did a revert of the cookie feature rather than
> using those patches. I think the first two or three should be sufficient to
> fix your issue?

Ideally, the correct way would be applying that pending series. But since
there were comments that some of the patches might need reworking [1], I did
not feel confident to add them. Therefore, I tried to keep my solution minimal
and solve it by eliminating the problem. I know, it is not appealing.

> For the time being, I marked this as Changes Requested. If the upstream
> patches are not sufficient, please send a mail upstream (as a reply to that
> series) explaining the problem (again), and re-send this patch to
> Buildroot. If it does fix things, please send a mail upstream to ask to
> move the series forward (explaining the issue you have), and send a patch
> to Buildroot that adds the needed patches.

They (re)confirmed the issue to me in the past [2] and are aware that its
solution is missing from all the releases onward (see the first point of
"Known bugs" in the release page [3]).

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220421003152.339542-3-alobakin@pm.me/T/#rb9ce86e9f25b2d097b88d87af8ffdfa401d63c68

[2]
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b1a604e1-be09-ac0b-ff22-b194ae9ce886@isovalent.com/

[3]
https://github.com/libbpf/bpftool/releases

--
Shahab