aya: make KernelVersion::code public #836
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I need to be able to access the current kernel version code so I can make some decisions in user space and/or send the information to the eBPF programs to make the decisions.
I could re-implement the logic to get the kernel version myself but since
aya
already has all the logic and is well tested I figured it made the most sense to expose the method I had previously implemented here. Another alternative would be to expose the fields insideKernelVersion
but that felt like a bigger surface area to guarantee no breaking changes rather than just the one method.Maybe in the future we should implement the
__kconfig
stuff that libbpf and cilium allow so that the eBPF programs will know theKERNEL_VERSION_CODE
but that felt heavyweight to implement at the moment and I wasn't sure if CO-RE was required for it which my current programs do not support.