Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Our failure on tracing tools unification (Was: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/15] tools: Unify perf and trace-cmd trace event format parsing v2) | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:31:40 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 17:08 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:47 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Ingo doesn't seem to want this library outside perf in order to avoid > > the fragmentation of the efforts on tracing tools. > > I really don't see the point.. parsing /debug/tracing/events/*/format > gunk really is separate, furthermore things like powertop et al already > are separate projects and really need this lib.
Note, powertop has already pulled in the lib into itself, thus we now have 3 dis-joint locations. I can imagine it getting worse soon.
-- Steve
> > I mean, who gives a bother where all that crap lives, if its in the > kernel tree its all close enough to keep an eye on.. its not like > kernel/events/ and kernel/trace/ are the same directory. > > Ingo, please could you lighten up and let people get stuff done? Merging > the two implementations, wherever the result lives, is a better > situation that two dis-joint implementations. So either let Frederic > work or do it yourself but don't hand-wave and road-block stuff.
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