Re: [PATCH v2 08/14] tools lib perf: Add missing install headers

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 12:12:16PM -0800, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 10:50 AM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Headers necessary for the perf build. Note, internal headers are also
> > installed as these are necessary for the build.
 
> Yeah, it's sad we are using those internal headers in perf.

The plan is for perf to eventually be a libperf tool, but what was done
so far was make available classes and methods that were asked for by
libperf users.

Completely untangling tools/perf/ from those internal bits will needs
lots more work, so doing it the way Ian is doing now seems ok.

- Arnaldo

> Ideally libperf provides callbacks to associate private data
> to each public data structure (e.g. evsel, evlist, etc).  And
> external users just use public APIs only.
> 
> But that would be a major change.