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=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham 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 546C4C43381 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16958217F5 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726568AbfCNAxa (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:53:30 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:44548 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726556AbfCNAxa (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:53:30 -0400 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 A911D2087C; Thu, 14 Mar 2019 00:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 20:53:28 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Patrick McLean Cc: Tzvetomir Stoyanov , linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 39/46] tools/lib/traceevent: Man pages for tep_load_plugins() and tep_unload_plugin() Message-ID: <20190313205328.66871de8@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20190313144517.656d06c0@patrickm> References: <20190308133654.21264-1-tstoyanov@vmware.com> <20190308133654.21264-40-tstoyanov@vmware.com> <20190313162756.336b8b24@gandalf.local.home> <20190313144206.41e75cf8@patrickm> <20190313144517.656d06c0@patrickm> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.16.0 (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 Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:45:17 -0700 Patrick McLean wrote: > > > Patrick, where's the place to put customized plugins that should > > > overwrite the system ones? > > > > > > > That sort of depends, if they are textual and could be considered > > configs, then .config is where they should go, otherwise > > ${HOME}/.local/share/traceevent or ${HOME}/.local/lib/traceevent, > > binaries should go under the lib, arch agnostic stuff should go under > > share. > > More information on this spec here: > https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > The "${HOME}.local/lib" is not listed in the spec, but it is the > convention that is often used. > https://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html Thanks. Note, these can be either .so binaries, or python scripts. -- Steve