Re: [PATCH] perf tool: Carve out ctype.h et al

Jiri Olsa
2014-06-26T07:36:56Z

On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:11:47PM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 04:42:54PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Probably will come in a separate patchkit that is dependent on this,
> > but not strictly related?
>
> Yeah, so roughly speaking, we want to carve out the code which opens and
> handles events in perf tool so that we can use it in other tools. In the

this functionality is inside evlist/evsel/target(...) objects

> particular example with the ras daemon, we want to be able to open a
> tracepoint in userspace and read from it.

the ras daemon is not in tree yet is it? cant find it..

>
> We're doing this piecewise because perf tool changes too fast and I've
> done a full conversion patchset a couple of times already only to
> realize that it grows obsolete practically only days after sending it
> out. (Btw, for that it is all your fault, of course :-P). Which makes
> preparing a full patchset almost impossible.
>
> Does this explanation make sense?

I think we should librarize only stuff we will share. Whats the plan
about the ras daemon (if I did not overlook it) to be put into tools?

thanks,
jirka