Messages in this thread | | | From | Namhyung Kim <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/: Convert to new topic libraries | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:21:07 +0900 |
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Hi Borislav,
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:27:59 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:32:42AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: >> I'm sorry to raise a naming issue again. But why the lib has 'k' and >> the directory doesn't? Isn't it more natural to prepend 'k' to 'api' >> as the name "api" looks too general? >> >> - libkapifs.{a,so} /kapi/fs/fs.c >> >> (Please ignore if it's already discussed..) > > Hmm, no, it hasn't been discussed but I assumed tools/lib/api/ being in > the *kernel* repository implicitly says which api functionality we're > collecting there. One of the main reasons to have tools/ in the kernel > AFAIU is to have those tools which are using its API close. Therefore, > tools/lib/api/ should be unambiguous. > > libkapifs.a (and the .so version even more, for that matter, and if we > decide to do it one day) would probably need more distinction and the > "k" in "kapi" there makes more sense. > > This is at least how I see it from here.
Yeah I assumed you guys plan to export it to the wild. :)
I'm OK with tools/lib/api if it lives and used only in the kernel tree.
Thanks, Namhyung
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