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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/: Convert to new topic libraries
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On 12/9/13, 9:14 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
>
> Move debugfs.* to api/fs/. We have a common tools/lib/api/ place
> where the Makefile lives and then we place the headers in subdirs.
> For example, all the fs-related stuff goes to tools/lib/api/fs/ from
> which we get libapikfs.a (acme got almost the naming he wanted :-))
> and we link it into the tools which need it - in this case perf and
> tools/vm/page-types.
>
> acme:
>
> "Looking at the implementation, I think some tools can even link
> directly to the .o files, avoiding the .a file altogether.
>
> But that is just an optimization/finer granularity tools/lib/
> cherrypicking that toolers can make use of."
>
> Fixup documentation cleaning target while at it.
>

no longer applies to the moving target that is acme's tree.

David