Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:51:01 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
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        Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>, Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tool: Carve out ctype.h et al
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:36:05AM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> this functionality is inside evlist/evsel/target(...) objects

Yep, and that functionality depends on generic stuff which we're trying to
export first. :-)

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

Here's an old version: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1090275

> I think we should librarize only stuff we will share.

You sound just like acme! :-) But yeah, this is what he said at the time
and this is what we want to do - we don't want to do more work than
necessary after all :-)

> Whats the plan about the ras daemon (if I did not overlook it) to be
> put into tools?

I'd say no initially, after the kvmtool explosion last time. Which is
still ok I guess.

If it remains out of tree, we will probably have some issues if the
exported pieces change and we'll have to readjust the external code
which depends on it. We'll see.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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