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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Having perf use libparsevent.a
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 08:48:47AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 11:24:09PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > By keeping the code separate from perf, made the transition from
> > > > trace-cmd to tools much easier. I've wasted too many days trying to
> > > > get other ways working, and I don't want to rewrite perf to do so.
> > >
> > > But we want to move tools together, not further apart. Every code
> > > activity i see from you is trying to tear apart instrumentation
> > > tooling - while previously you agreed that it should be unified. So
> > > why not do tools/perf/lib/ as you agreed before?
> > >
> > > I'm really not interested in seeing the libdrm/libdri mess repeated.
> > > Libraries have their uses when there's some very important external
> > > interface, but here it's actively harmful as it complicates and
> > > hardcodes APIs into ABIs that are clearly not finished yet.
> > >
> > > Really, lets not be stupid here.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Ingo
> >
> > The trace events format is a general interface that not only perf
> > and trace-cmd use but also powertop and pytimechart, and may be
> > others?
> >
> > And given the breakage we had with powertop, for example, that
> > broke because it was relying on an ad-hoc static layout of the
> > trace event, or pytimechart that relies(ed?) on the event string
> > output, I think that library is needed outside perf.
>
> That is why i suggested libperf.so - this will handle the cases you
> mention, plus any future case - while still allow more flexible code
> sharing between libperf and the perf tools themselves.

But what would you want inside libperf.o, further the trace event
library?


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