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

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Fri Jan 26 2018 - 01:04:59 EST


Hi Jiri and Steve,

On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 04:15:02PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> 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 ;-)

I'd suggest 'trev'.

Thanks,
Namhyung