Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2020 22:18:14 +0900 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being in the Linux kernel source? |
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On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 18:12:42 -0500 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 21:17:43 +0900 > Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote: > > > +1. It sounds reasonable to move the main part of libtraceevent out > > of kernel tree. BTW, the plugins seems depending on the kernel. Maybe > > we can provide it under > > /lib/modules/<kversion>/shared/libtraceevent/plugins/ ? :) > > They really shouldn't be. They should be able to be used between > different versions of the kernel. Which plugins do you see an issue > with?
I meant tools/lib/traceevent/plugins. It seems that those plugins provide equivarent codes of some macros or values in event formats. In that case, when a new kernel modifies the event definitions, I think some of those needs to be updated too. Or, would those events be considered as a stable ABI?
Thank you,
-- Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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