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

From: AmÃrico Wang
Date: Mon Aug 08 2011 - 05:34:35 EST


On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 5:40 AM, 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.
>

libkevent is still too generic, how about libtraceevent?
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