Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:07:11 +0200 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: Our failure on tracing tools unification (Was: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/15] tools: Unify perf and trace-cmd trace event format parsing v2) |
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 11:31:40AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 17:08 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:47 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > > Ingo doesn't seem to want this library outside perf in order to avoid > > > the fragmentation of the efforts on tracing tools. > > > > I really don't see the point.. parsing /debug/tracing/events/*/format > > gunk really is separate, furthermore things like powertop et al already > > are separate projects and really need this lib. > > Note, powertop has already pulled in the lib into itself, thus we now > have 3 dis-joint locations. I can imagine it getting worse soon.
Oh, and there's the mce_record event which I'm going to be needing soon so this adds yet another user to this library - a minor one but still.
So yeah, we should probably get our stuff in order before going any further with events and stuff and all...
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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