linux-kernel - Re: Remove traceevent from tools/lib

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Message-ID: <20221117134250.532a44c9@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:42:50 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...gle.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-perf-users <linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Remove traceevent from tools/lib

On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:59:46 -0800
Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com> wrote:

> Means that perf is cleanly(ish) separated from libraries in tools/lib.
> traceevent in tools/lib is out of date (~2years - version 1.1.0 whilst
> the latest is 1.6.3 [1]) . Should we delete traceevent from tools/lib

Yes please!

Strongly-acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve

> and just make LIBTRACEEVENT_DYNAMIC the only supported perf build
> option? I guess this may break old distributions that may not have
> libtraceevent, but even so I'm not sure that should motivate not
> cleaning this up (if they are building perf they can build
> libtraceevent).