[PATCH] [RFC PATCH] BPF backend

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please let me know your feedback and steps to get it merged.
>
> Could I ask who's going to maintain this backend? Targets without an
> active LLVM sub-community behind them tend to slowly bit-rot until
> everyone else gets fed up enough with fixing it when they refactor
> things; they then get removed.

Obviously I will maintain it just like I did during 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 timeframe.
I expect people will step up in maintainership of backend when they
start writing their own front-ends for it.
We may have one front-end with dtrace-like language and another
front-end with networking oriented language soon enough in the future,
since C as a front-end is too expressive for what kernel allows it to do.