Hi Steve, On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:33 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Oh, I meant the former. Thanks Namhyung
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