Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:39:55 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf: Move fs.* to generic lib/lk/ |
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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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