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Commit 04efaebd authored by Dave Thaler's avatar Dave Thaler Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf, docs: Address comments from IETF Area Directors

This patch does the following to address IETF feedback:

* Remove mention of "program type" and reference future
  docs (and mention platform-specific docs exist) for
  helper functions and BTF. Addresses Roman Danyliw's
  comments based on GENART review from Ines Robles [0].

* Add reference for endianness as requested by John
  Scudder [1].

* Added bit numbers to top of 32-bit wide format diagrams
  as requested by Paul Wouters [2].

* Added more text about why BPF doesn't stand for anything, based
  on text from ebpf.io [3], as requested by Eric Vyncke and
  Gunter Van de Velde [4].

* Replaced "htobe16" (and similar) and the direction-specific
  description with just "be16" (and similar) and a direction-agnostic
  description, to match the direction-agnostic description in
  the Byteswap Instructions section. Based on feedback from Eric
  Vyncke [5].

[0] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/bpf/DvDgDWOiwk05OyNlWlAmELZFPlM/

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/bpf/eKNXpU4jCLjsbZDSw8LjI29M3tM/

[2] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/bpf/hGk8HkYxeZTpdu9qW_MvbGKj7WU/

[3] https://ebpf.io/what-is-ebpf/#what-do-ebpf-and-bpf-stand-for

[4] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/bpf/i93lzdN3ewnzzS_JMbinCIYxAIU/

[5] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/bpf/KBWXbMeDcSrq4vsKR_KkBbV6hI4/



Acked-by: default avatarDavid Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Thaler <dthaler1968@googlemail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240623150453.10613-1-dthaler1968@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parent 93265a0b
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