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

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Message-ID: <20200106113615.4545e3c5@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Mon, 6 Jan 2020 11:36:15 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
Cc:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...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>,
        Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@...uxfoundation.org>,
        users@...ux.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being
 in the Linux kernel source?

On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 13:26:23 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com> wrote:

> So, we have:
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/tools/perf/
> 
> trying to mimic the kernel sources tree structure, so perhaps we could
> have:
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/tools/lib/{perf,traceevent}/
> 
> To continue that directory tree mirror?

Wouldn't that become a bit of manual work. Unlike perf, the versions
will not correspond to the Linux kernel versions. They would need to
follow library versioning.

It would at a minimum require new scripting to get this right.

-- Steve