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

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Message-ID: <20200103181242.4802727e@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Fri, 3 Jan 2020 18:12:42 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...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, 3 Jan 2020 21:17:43 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:

> +1. It sounds reasonable to move the main part of libtraceevent out
> of kernel tree. BTW, the plugins seems depending on the kernel. Maybe
> we can provide it under
> /lib/modules/<kversion>/shared/libtraceevent/plugins/ ? :)

They really shouldn't be. They should be able to be used between
different versions of the kernel. Which plugins do you see an issue
with?

-- Steve