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=-7.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_2 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 5A53DC33C8C for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2020 21:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3226120707 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2020 21:00:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726735AbgAFVAq (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:00:46 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:52426 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726683AbgAFVAq (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:00:46 -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 6DF4E2072C; Mon, 6 Jan 2020 20:52:33 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 15:52:32 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Jiri Olsa , Sudip Mukherjee , Ingo Molnar , Namhyung Kim , Masami Hiramatsu , Linux Trace Devel , LKML , Linus Torvalds , Konstantin Ryabitsev , users@linux.kernel.org Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFC] tools lib traceevent: How to do library versioning being in the Linux kernel source? Message-ID: <20200106155232.4061d755@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <20200106204715.GA22353@ziepe.ca> References: <20200102122004.216c85da@gandalf.local.home> <20200102234950.GA14768@krava> <20200102185853.0ed433e4@gandalf.local.home> <20200103133640.GD9715@krava> <20200103181614.7aa37f6d@gandalf.local.home> <20200106151902.GB236146@krava> <20200106162623.GA11285@kernel.org> <20200106113615.4545e3c5@gandalf.local.home> <20200106204715.GA22353@ziepe.ca> 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 Mon, 6 Jan 2020 16:47:15 -0400 Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > If it is not tightly linked to the kernel and is just a normal Well, it's used by perf, trace-cmd, power-top and rasdaemon (and perhaps even more). It lives in the kernel tree mainly because of perf. > library, you might consider using github. This is what we do for the > rdma user space and it works well. We still take patches from the > mailing list flow, but do use a fair amount of the github stuff too: > > https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core > > With github actions now able to provide a quite good CI it covers a > lot of required stuff for a library in one place, in a way that > doesn't silo all the build infrastucture. Github has ways to help with libraries? I'm totally clueless about this. I'm interested in hearing more. Thanks, -- Steve > > If you are interested in how we set it up I can write a longer email.