Em Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 02:50:34PM +0100, Borislav Petkov escreveu: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I don't think those other bits should go into this library. rbtree > > should go into lib/rbtree/, command-line bits into lib/cmdline/, build > > system helpers into lib/build/, etc. > > > > Merging unrelated things into a single library is a user-space disease > > we need not repeat. > > Well, rbtree is basically rblist.c and the rbtree*.h headers which > simply wrap the kernel headers. > > cmdline is parse-options.c. > > IOW, that's splitting it into too granulary pieces with 1-2 compilation > units ber library.
Lets do one at a time, so far we agreed that the ones that involves parsing procfs/sysfs etc should go in tools/lib/(fs)?kapi, so lets do that one. > And what if there are interdependencies between the stuff split this > way? That could become very painful and unnecessary. > So having a simple single library which includes generic stuff needed to > interface with the kernel is much simpler and sane, IMHO. > And, since we're keeping it internal, we can do the split the other way > around instead - first do the single generic library and then carve out > a certain subset of functionality if/when it makes sense. > The same approach we can use for the name - first split and work with it > and change stuff when the need for it arises. > > I'd also not expose any of this externally but straight link it into > > the individual utilities - that way it does not matter that it's a > > nice, topical, fine-grained set of functionality. > > > > I don't think we are ready for (nor do we want the overhead of) > > maintaining a library ABI at this stage. > > > > Once things slow down and it's all so robust that we've had at most > > a handful of commits in tools/lib/ in a full year we can think about > > exporting it, maybe ... > > Right. yeah. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/