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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Having perf use libparsevent.a
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>
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On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:47 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Aug 6, 2011 11:35 AM, "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 09:16 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> >
> > > If the library is just for parsing trace events why not call it
> > > libtraceparse or libtrace? This isn't perf specific functionality.
> >
> > Actually, I'm thinking libevents would probably be most appropriate.
> It
> > has less to do with perf in general, and more about events. Even
> reading
> > the events goes under this category.
> 
> Ooh, please don't... "libevent" is already an epoll() event-based
> application helper library and this would be overly confusing.

OK, what about libkevent, as this has to do with kernel events.

-- Steve