From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754086Ab3KUMj7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:39:59 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.225]:47509 "EHLO cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751491Ab3KUMj5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:39:57 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:39:55 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Borislav Petkov Cc: Ingo Molnar , LKML , Borislav Petkov , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Peter Zijlstra , Robert Richter Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Move fs.* to generic lib/lk/ Message-ID: <20131121123954.GA8044@home.goodmis.org> References: <1384984585-24300-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <20131121073410.GA16971@gmail.com> <20131121100722.GA25459@pd.tnic> <20131121111744.GA27513@gmail.com> <20131121113014.GA26009@pd.tnic> <20131121114224.GA27704@gmail.com> <20131121120605.GC26009@pd.tnic> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131121120605.GC26009@pd.tnic> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.142:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 01:06:05PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > No, I absolutely don't think it is a bikeshedding exercise too. We > really need that lib because people have started growing their own > facilities in tools/ and outside so having a lib which implements > generic functionality for interfacing with the kernel right is going to > save everyone a lot of time and energy. Should we put libtraceevent here too? Have all kapi functionality live here? As libtraceevent is getting mature, we need to get it out as a real library soon. There is already three utilities that use it: perf, trace-cmd and powertop. And I've heard of others that want that functionatity. -- Steve