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That’s not an excuse to not explain wtf the name means. It’s literally one of the first questions that always comes up when I explain ebpf to people.
Does literally everything that uses it need to expand the acronym? Even if it confuses people or gives them the false impression of what it actually does? "This product uses eBPF, or extended Berkeley Packet Filter. But forget all of that because it has no relation with Berkeley, and it doesn't filter packets." In a sense eBPF as just some letters being a name is a better name than "extended Berkeley Packet Filter",…
Try reading the thread before you reply. It’s a complaint about the ebpf site itself not explaining what ebpf is. It has nothing to do with things that use ebpf.