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

[Steven Rostedt]

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 ;-)

-- Steve