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

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Date:   Tue, 7 Jan 2020 22:15:01 +0900
From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.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>,
        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?

Hello Steve,

Happy new year!

On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at 8:19 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> BTW, while doing some minor fixes, I realized I still have generic
> names for "warning", "pr_stat" and "vpr_stat" and thought they should
> be changed to "tep_warning", "tep_pr_stat" and "tep_vpr_stat" for
> namespace reasons even though they are weak functions. Would this
> require a major version change, or perhaps its early enough to get this
> in with a minor version change as the libraries are probably not being
> used yet?

Hmm.. I don't think it requires a major version change as they are not
public APIs actually.  They are internal functions but can be overridden
by external ones, right?

I guess it's because there was a concern with printing messages in
a library.  What about adding a mechanism to register callbacks
(and maybe defaults to discard all messages)?

Thanks
Namhyung