The latest iproute2 version brings various improvements and fixes:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git/log/?qt=range&q=v5.10.0..v5.11.0
In particular, ip and tc now use libbpf as the standard way to load BPF
programs, rather than the old, limited custom loader. This allows more
consistent and featureful BPF program handling e.g. support for global
initialized variables.
Also fix a longstanding problem with iproute2 builds where unneeded DSO
dependencies are added to most utilities, bloating their installation
footprint. From research and testing, explicitly using a "--as-needed"
linker flag avoids the issue. Update accordingly and drop extra package
dependencies from Makefile.
Additional build and packaging updates include:
- install missing development header to iproute2/bpf_elf.h
- propagate OpenWrt verbose flag during build
- update and refresh patches
Compile and run tested: QEMU/malta-mips32be on kernels 5.4 & 5.10.
All iproute2 packages were built and installed to the test image. Some
regression testing using ip-full and tc was successfully performed to
exercise several kmods, tc modules, and simple BPF programs.
Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <itugrok@yahoo.com>
Add build and runtime dependencies on libelf, allowing tc and ip-full
to load BPF and XDP object files respectively.
Define package 'tc' as a singleton package variant, which can be used to
enable additional functionality limited only to tc. Also set ip-tiny
as the default 'ip' variant.
Preserve optionality of libelf by having configuration script follow the
HAVE_ELF environment variable, used similarly to the HAVE_MNL variable.
Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <itugrok@yahoo.com>
This reverts commit 26681fa6a6 as it breaks the
installation of the iproute2 utilities ip-bridge, ss, nstat, devlink and rdma
for the ip-full variant
Signed-off-by: Hans Dedecker <dedeckeh@gmail.com>
Simplify build and runtime dependencies on libelf, which allows tc and ip
to load BPF and XDP object files respectively.
Preserve optionality of libelf by having configuration script follow the
HAVE_ELF environment variable, used similarly to the HAVE_MNL variable.
Signed-off-by: Tony Ambardar <itugrok@yahoo.com>
