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From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 02/17] perf ftrace: add option '-F/--funcs' to list
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On Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:21:16 -0300
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:

>  
> > Would you like to start contributing to that, and when we get the
> > libtracefs.so packed in distributions, we can easily create the
> > perf ftrace without having to rewrite the wheel 10 times?  
> 
> Or we can use as soon as it is available, not preventing 'perf ftrace'
> from having to wait for libtracefs.so?
> 
> Duplication is normal at some point, Changbin is moving 'perf ftrace'
> forward, and has been doing this thru several patch series revisions, if
> we continue putting new requirements, it gets tiresome at some point :-\

We're finally at the point to move libtracefs.so and libtraceevent.so
into their own repository.

My fear is that the two will become incompatible, and forked forever.

-- Steve