From: Daniel Borkmann Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 21:57:18 +0000 (+0100) Subject: bpf, doc: add note for libbpf's stand-alone build X-Git-Tag: v5.0-rc3~39^2~24^2^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=80f21ff987eb377140d27102285f8dd1167b335c;p=thirdparty%2Fkernel%2Flinux.git 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 --- diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst b/tools/lib/bpf/README.rst index 056f383107226..607aae40f4eda 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 =====