On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 09:47:00 -0800
Alexei Starovoitov [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 9:36 AM David Ahern [off-list ref] wrote:

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On 11/3/20 1:46 AM, Daniel Borkmann wrote:  

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I thought last time this discussion came up there was consensus that the
submodule could be an explicit opt in for the configure script at least?  

I do not recall Stephen agreeing to that, and I certainly did not.  

Daniel,

since David is deaf to technical arguments,
how about we fork iproute2 and maintain it separately?

A submodule is not a practical viable option.

Please come back when you are ready to use distro libbpf packages.
This seems a microcosm of the Linux packaging problem that was discussed
around Kubernetes and "vendorizaton"