Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/8] Having perf use libparsevent.a

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Aug 05 2011 - 17:25:31 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> By keeping the code separate from perf, made the transition from
> trace-cmd to tools much easier. I've wasted too many days trying to
> get other ways working, and I don't want to rewrite perf to do so.

But we want to move tools together, not further apart. Every code
activity i see from you is trying to tear apart instrumentation
tooling - while previously you agreed that it should be unified. So
why not do tools/perf/lib/ as you agreed before?

I'm really not interested in seeing the libdrm/libdri mess repeated.
Libraries have their uses when there's some very important external
interface, but here it's actively harmful as it complicates and
hardcodes APIs into ABIs that are clearly not finished yet.

Really, lets not be stupid here.

Thanks,

Ingo
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