* Daniel P. Berrangé:

> On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 11:58:32AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * Daniel P. Berrangé:
>> 
>> > In QEMU there's a desire to make use of BPF programs for implementing
>> > some networking features. The current patches are proposing adding 
>> > prebuilt BPF byte code to the QEMU repo, with source available, but
>> > not actually building from source during a build.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if we had any specific guidance or rules covering the
>> > shipping BPF programs in particular ?
>> 
>> Is this even technically feasible?  I don't think the kernel presents a
>> stable interface to BPF programs.
>
> I'm not sure to be honest, but I'll raise that as a question to the
> patch submitter. I'm not very familiar with BPF, just saw the suggestion
> to ship pre-built BPF bytecode and was concerned this would not be
> acceptable for Fedora.

Is this about ebpf/rss.bpf.c?  It looks more like an attempt to bypass
the Fedora kernel module policy.

Thanks,
Florian
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