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Subject: Re: Sdbusplus-based Shared Library
To: vishwa <vishwa@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Patrick Venture <venture@google.com>, 
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I second Patrick here. We definitely need miscellaneous utility library. 
As he mentioned we can start small or even create few libraries with 
different purpose each (say timer, sdbusplus utils shared library etc.)

Related to customization, we need to make sure libraries are generic in 
nature, and expose correct hooks. Even if specific hack is needed, then 
it has to be extended as sub-module and patched by direct linking for 
the needed module instead of updating the libraries directly. ??

Regards,

Richard


On 7/18/2018 5:04 PM, vishwa wrote:
> lity library for timers / watchdog was something that I initially 
> proposed during the early days and the argument back was that when we 
> have such a thing, then we need to keep augmenting the library to suit 
> needs of the consumers and we loose flexibility and end up putting hacks.