linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/: Convert to new topic libraries

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Message-ID: <52A7C3E7.301@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:46:15 -0700
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@...dex-team.ru>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/: Convert to new topic libraries

On 12/9/13, 9:14 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
>
> Move debugfs.* to api/fs/. We have a common tools/lib/api/ place
> where the Makefile lives and then we place the headers in subdirs.
> For example, all the fs-related stuff goes to tools/lib/api/fs/ from
> which we get libapikfs.a (acme got almost the naming he wanted :-))
> and we link it into the tools which need it - in this case perf and
> tools/vm/page-types.
>
> acme:
>
> "Looking at the implementation, I think some tools can even link
> directly to the .o files, avoiding the .a file altogether.
>
> But that is just an optimization/finer granularity tools/lib/
> cherrypicking that toolers can make use of."
>
> Fixup documentation cleaning target while at it.
>

no longer applies to the moving target that is acme's tree.

David

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