Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] tools lib traceevent: Add options to plugins

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 06:43:10PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2014 18:41:54 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The traceevent plugins allows developers to have their events print out
> > information that is more advanced than what can be achieved by the
> > trace event format files.
> > 
> > As these plugins are used on the userspace side of the tracing tools, it
> > is only logical that the tools should be able to produce different types
> > of output for the events. The types of events still need to be defined by
> > the plugins thus we need a way to pass information from the tool to the
> > plugin to specify what type of information to be shown.
> > 
> > Not only does the information need to be passed by the tool to plugin, but
> > the plugin also requires a way to notify the tool of what options it can
> > provide.
> > 
> > This builds the plugin option infrastructure that is taken from trace-cmd
> > that is used to allow plugins to produce different output based on the
> > options specified by the tool.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> Jiri,
> 
> I only sent this patch for v3, as the 1,3,4 are fine. Do you want me to
> send a full series? Or can you just pull in v2 of patches 1,3 and 4 and
> then v3 of this one?

no need to resend, I'll take it from here

jirka