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libbpf is used more and more outside kernel tree. That means the library should follow good practices in library design and implementation to play well with third party code that uses it. One of such practices is to have a common prefix (or a few) for every interface, function or data structure, library provides. I helps to avoid name conflicts with other libraries and keeps API consistent. Inconsistent names in libbpf already cause problems in real life. E.g. an application can't use both libbpf and libnl due to conflicting symbols. Having common prefix will help to fix current and avoid future problems. libbpf already uses the following prefixes for its interfaces: * bpf_ for bpf system call wrappers, program/map/elf-object abstractions and a few other things; * btf_ for BTF related API; * libbpf_ for everything else. The patch adds libbpf_ prefix to interfaces in nlattr.h that use none of mentioned above prefixes and doesn't fit well into the first two categories. Since affected part of API is used in bpftool, the patch applies corresponding change to bpftool as well. Having it in a separate patch will cause a state of tree where bpftool is broken what may not be a good idea. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.