[PATCH v5 7/8] net/tap: use libbpf to load new BPF program

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 03 Apr 2024 12:50:35 +0100
Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org> wrote:

> Using bpftool to generate the header at build time is a bit icky,
> because it will look at sysfs on the build system, which is from the
> running kernel. But a build system's kernel might be some ancient LTS,
> and even be a completely different kconfig/build/distro from the actual
> runtime one.

One other option would be to ship a pre-built skeleton file.
Which is what the method the old code did.
But that creates an implied dependency on the developers machine build environment.