Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Having perf use libparsevent.a

[Kyle Moffett]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 17:40, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 14:47 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>> On Aug 6, 2011 11:35 AM, "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Hmm, well "kevent()" is a BSD syscall that does the same kinds of things
as "epoll()" does on Linux.  It's used by libevent, in fact.

Maybe "libkernevent"?  A quick google doesn't find anything problematic
there...  Other options with minimal chance of confusion are:
  libkernelevent
  liblinuxevent
  libinuxevent (Linked with option "-linuxevent")

To be honest I don't really see anything wrong with a name involving
"trace"...  Perhaps something like libevtrace/libtraceevent/etc?

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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