Re: [PATCH] perf: Move fs.* to generic lib/lk/

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Nov 21 2013 - 07:40:01 EST


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

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