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

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Message-ID: <CAP-5=fUmWPz8ZyfuXu929VZkRNXKmD0PCX9WwZNWu+17-ENKiw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:52:06 -0800
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
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, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:42 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> 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 traceevent in tools/lib is out of date (~2years - version 1.1.0 whilst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>

I sent v1 patches:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221117224952.358639-1-irogers@google.com/

Thanks,
Ian

> -- 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).
>