Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/: Convert to new topic libraries

Namhyung Kim
2013-12-10T01:32:46Z

Hi Borislav,

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 17:14:23 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> Move debugfs.* to api/fs/. We have a common tools/lib/api/ place
> where the Makefile lives and then we place the headers in subdirs.
> For example, all the fs-related stuff goes to tools/lib/api/fs/ from
> which we get libapikfs.a (acme got almost the naming he wanted :-))
> and we link it into the tools which need it - in this case perf and
> tools/vm/page-types.

I'm sorry to raise a naming issue again. But why the lib has 'k' and
the directory doesn't? Isn't it more natural to prepend 'k' to 'api' as
the name "api" looks too general?

- libkapifs.{a,so}
- lib/kapi/fs/fs.c

(Please ignore if it's already discussed..)

Thanks,
Namhyung