From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_2 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E133C3276C for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2020 23:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F06921835 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2020 23:58:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725883AbgABX64 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jan 2020 18:58:56 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:53270 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725872AbgABX64 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jan 2020 18:58:56 -0500 Received: from gandalf.local.home (cpe-66-24-58-225.stny.res.rr.com [66.24.58.225]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4ED1F20863; Thu, 2 Jan 2020 23:58:55 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 18:58:53 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Jiri Olsa Cc: Sudip Mukherjee , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Namhyung Kim , Masami Hiramatsu , Linux Trace Devel , LKML , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being in the Linux kernel source? Message-ID: <20200102185853.0ed433e4@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20200102234950.GA14768@krava> References: <20200102122004.216c85da@gandalf.local.home> <20200102234950.GA14768@krava> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.17.3 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-trace-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 00:49:50 +0100 Jiri Olsa wrote: > > Should we move libtraceevent into a stand alone git repo (on > > kernel.org), that can have tags and branches specifically for it? We > > can keep a copy in the Linux source tree for perf to use till it > > so libbpf 'moved' for this reason to github repo, > but keeping the kernel as the true/first source, > and updating github repo when release is ready > > libbpf github repo is then source for fedora (and others) > package Ah, so perhaps I should follow this? I could keep it a kernel.org repo (as I rather have it there anyway). We can have the tools/lib/traceevent be the main source, but then just copy it to the stand alone for releases. Sudip, would this work for you too? (and yes, I plan on acking that patch for the -ldl change, after looking at it a little bit more). -- Steve