From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Stanislav Fomichev <stfomichev@yandex-team.ru>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tools/: Convert to new topic libraries
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:21:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iouwi3ng.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131210112758.GA31437@pd.tnic> (Borislav Petkov's message of "Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:27:59 +0100")
Hi Borislav,
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:27:59 +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:32:42AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> I'm sorry to raise a naming issue again. But why the lib has 'k' and
>> the directory doesn't? Isn't it more natural to prepend 'k' to 'api'
>> as the name "api" looks too general?
>>
>> - libkapifs.{a,so} /kapi/fs/fs.c
>>
>> (Please ignore if it's already discussed..)
>
> Hmm, no, it hasn't been discussed but I assumed tools/lib/api/ being in
> the *kernel* repository implicitly says which api functionality we're
> collecting there. One of the main reasons to have tools/ in the kernel
> AFAIU is to have those tools which are using its API close. Therefore,
> tools/lib/api/ should be unambiguous.
>
> libkapifs.a (and the .so version even more, for that matter, and if we
> decide to do it one day) would probably need more distinction and the
> "k" in "kapi" there makes more sense.
>
> This is at least how I see it from here.
Yeah I assumed you guys plan to export it to the wild. :)
I'm OK with tools/lib/api if it lives and used only in the kernel tree.
Thanks,
Namhyung
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-11 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-09 16:14 [PATCH -v1.1 0/2] perf tool: Carve out fs.* stuff Borislav Petkov
2013-12-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] tools/: Convert to new topic libraries Borislav Petkov
2013-12-10 1:32 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-12-10 11:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-11 1:21 ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2013-12-11 12:31 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-12-11 1:46 ` David Ahern
2013-12-11 9:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-11 12:31 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-12-11 13:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-12-11 13:30 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-11 13:54 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-12-11 14:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-12-18 10:30 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2013-12-09 16:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf: Move fs.* to lib/api/fs/ Borislav Petkov
2013-12-16 13:37 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2014-02-22 17:59 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-12-05 16:25 [PATCH 0/2] perf tool: Carve out fs.* stuff Borislav Petkov
2013-12-05 16:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] tools/: Convert to new topic libraries Borislav Petkov
2013-12-09 10:22 ` Jiri Olsa
2013-12-09 10:42 ` Borislav Petkov
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