Re: [RFC 0/4] tools lib traceevent: Install fixes

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Fri Jan 19 2018 - 10:15:27 EST


On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:07:28AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 11:37:13 +0100
> Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > hi,
> > I checked on this one and was surprised last email is from 2016 ;-)
> > so we did not move much with this.. is there still will to do that?
> >
> > I think we were kind of waiting for the namespace changes in
> > traceevent library.. like to have some common prefix for public
> > functions/struct, like 'traceevent_' ?
> >
> > thoughts? thanks,
>
> Yes, actually this is back on my radar. I now have full time staff
> working on trace-cmd and kernelshark. One of the up coming changes is
> to start pushing libtraceevent as a real library which means changing
> this.
>
> Thus, do we think "traceevent_" is the proper naming? Could we shorten
> it to "tevent_"? Need to get this bike-shedding exercise out of the way
> first ;-)

tevent is ok with me.. one character far from the current one ;-)

jirka