On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 11:51:12 +0900 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 4:01 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What's the next step to get this into a package so that perf, > > trace-cmd, power-top, rasdaemon, uftrace, and whatever does not need to > > have its own copy of the code, but instead link to it. > > > > Note, the interface has changed since other tools copied it, and I'm > > willing to help anyone out in porting to the package. > > For uftrace, I think it needs to keep the copy of the code for a while > since it should support older versions of distros as well. > I'll add a runtime dependency check for libtraceevent and use > the new APIs if exists. > What do you mean by support older distros? You mean older distros not having the library (a user could always just download the source code and compile it themselves :-) Or handling the trace events, because libtraceevent should be able to handle older kernels. -- Steve
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