linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf: Move fs.* to generic lib/lk/

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Date:	Thu, 21 Nov 2013 07:39:55 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: Move fs.* to generic lib/lk/

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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