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

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Date:   Mon, 6 Jan 2020 15:52:32 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>,
        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: [kernel.org users] [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do
 library versioning being in the Linux kernel source?

On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:47:15 -0400
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca> wrote:

> If it is not tightly linked to the kernel and is just a normal

Well, it's used by perf, trace-cmd, power-top and rasdaemon (and
perhaps even more). It lives in the kernel tree mainly because of perf.

> library, you might consider using github. This is what we do for the
> rdma user space and it works well. We still take patches from the
> mailing list flow, but do use a fair amount of the github stuff too:
> 
> https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core
> 
> With github actions now able to provide a quite good CI it covers a
> lot of required stuff for a library in one place, in a way that
> doesn't silo all the build infrastucture.

Github has ways to help with libraries? I'm totally clueless about
this. I'm interested in hearing more.

Thanks,

-- Steve


> 
> If you are interested in how we set it up I can write a longer email.