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While there are many proponents of "eBPF is good for everything and your grandma" approach, this opinion is not universally shared. One big risk is that this will eventually lead to possibility of having whole drivers / core code written in eBPF, which could potentially lead to decreased maintainability and supportability, also due to big fragmentation of the code (eBPF programs might not necessarily be shipped together with the kernel codebase).

This could potentially be a big risk for distros as well, as we (as a distro vendor) might be very quickly losing control over what is actually running in the context of the kernel they are bound to be supporting.

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