linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being in the Linux kernel source?

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Date:   Fri, 3 Jan 2020 18:29:23 +0000
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being in
 the Linux kernel source?

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 1:36 PM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 06:58:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 00:49:50 +0100
> > Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > Should we move libtraceevent into a stand alone git repo (on
> > > > kernel.org), that can have tags and branches specifically for it? We
> > > > can keep a copy in the Linux source tree for perf to use till it
> > >
> > > so libbpf 'moved' for this reason to github repo,
> > > but keeping the kernel as the true/first source,
> > > and updating github repo when release is ready
> > >
> > > libbpf github repo is then source for fedora (and others)
> > > package
> >
> > Ah, so perhaps I should follow this? I could keep it a kernel.org repo
> > (as I rather have it there anyway).
>
> sounds good, and if it works out, we'll follow you with libperf :-)
>
> if you want to check on the libbpf:
>   https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf

fwiw, I have opened a bug report in Debian requesting to package
libbpf from the github repo.

-- 
Regards
Sudip