Re: [RFC 0/4] tools lib traceevent: Install fixes

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Fri Aug 05 2016 - 10:42:50 EST


Em Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:13:52AM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:01:44 +0200
> Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > BTW, before we start making this ready for their own libraries, I'd
> > > like to make some changes with the naming convention. Mainly with
> > > event_format and format_field.
> > >
> > > Perhaps we should change them to pevent_event and pevent_field?
> >
> > right, it does not have any global prefix for public symbols
> >
> > I'd actualy expect something like 'traceevent_',
> > but 'pevent' is ok as well I guess
>
> OK, what's the consensus here? Should we keep "pevent_" or switch to
> the longer "traceevent_"?

traceevent_ matches libtraceevent, so I think would be more obvious the
association of code with the library.

- Arnaldo

> I want to make the patch that gets this ready to ship!
>
> -- Steve