On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:02:18 +0900 Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hi Steve, > > (also add Jiri to CC list, hi!) Ug, I thought I added him, but looking at my email, I must have thought I did but did not. :-/ > > On Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:03:22 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Hi all! > > > > The question has recently come up in Fedora about packaging the > > libtraceevent.so library. Currently there's 4 users of it: > > > > 1) perf > > 2) trace-cmd > > 3) powertop > > 4) rasdaemon > > > > But each have their own copy of the code. > > > > Both perf and trace-cmd are the major developers of the package, and I > > would recommend that they continue using the *.a version, but for those > > tools that are simple users of the library, it would probably make > > sense to have them use libtraceevent.so and remove their copies from > > the code (powertop and rasdaemon). > > > > The question that I'm posing here is, what currently needs to be done > > to have this happen? > > I think the most important thing is error handling. The filter parser > code still has some calls to die(). It should be converted to return > error and appropriate error messages IMHO. But I didn't check it'd > affect to the end-user APIs though. Yep that should be cleaned up as well. > > And it needs to add plugin APIs before the public release. I agree with that too. > > > > > Is the API stable enough for a release? > > Well, afaics the plugin unregister API should pass pevent as an argument > so that it can unregister individual event/function handlers in it. > > Other than that I think it's pretty stable. :) OK, lets work on getting these minor things fixed and get it ready for a public library. -- Steve -- 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/
