From 80f21ff987eb377140d27102285f8dd1167b335c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 22:57:18 +0100 Subject: bpf, doc: add note for libbpf's stand-alone build Given this came up couple of times, add a note to libbpf's readme about the semi-automated mirror for a stand-alone build which is officially managed by BPF folks. While at it, also explicitly state the libbpf license in the readme file. Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov --- tools/lib/bpf/README.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/lib') diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst b/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst index 056f38310722..607aae40f4ed 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst @@ -132,6 +132,20 @@ For example, if current state of ``libbpf.map`` is: Format of version script and ways to handle ABI changes, including incompatible ones, described in details in [1]. +Stand-alone build +================= + +Under https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf there is a (semi-)automated +mirror of the mainline's version of libbpf for a stand-alone build. + +However, all changes to libbpf's code base must be upstreamed through +the mainline kernel tree. + +License +======= + +libbpf is dual-licensed under LGPL 2.1 and BSD 2-Clause. + Links ===== -- cgit v1.2.3 From e3ca63de8ade75757a067f6a5bd111d30cdcadb5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stanislav Fomichev Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 16:07:28 -0800 Subject: selftests/bpf: add missing executables to .gitignore We build test_libbpf with CXX to make sure linking against C++ works. $ make -s -C tools/lib/bpf $ git status -sb ? tools/lib/bpf/test_libbpf $ make -s -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf $ git status -sb ? tools/lib/bpf/test_libbpf ? tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_libbpf Fixes: 8c4905b995c6 ("libbpf: make sure bpf headers are c++ include-able") Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann --- tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/bpf/.gitignore | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/lib') diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore b/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore index f81e549ddfdb..4db74758c674 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/.gitignore @@ -1,2 +1,3 @@ libbpf_version.h FEATURE-DUMP.libbpf +test_libbpf diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/.gitignore b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/.gitignore index 4a9785043a39..dd093bd91aa9 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/.gitignore +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/.gitignore @@ -28,3 +28,4 @@ flow_dissector_load test_netcnt test_section_names test_tcpnotify_user +test_libbpf -- cgit v1.2.3