Re: [PATCH v2 31/32] libluo: introduce luoctl

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, Jul 29 2025 at 13:14, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 02:46:44PM +0000, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
>> From: Pratyush Yadav <ptyadav@xxxxxxxxx>
>>  tools/lib/luo/Makefile       |   6 +-
>>  tools/lib/luo/cli/.gitignore |   1 +
>>  tools/lib/luo/cli/Makefile   |  18 ++++
>>  tools/lib/luo/cli/luoctl.c   | 178 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  4 files changed, 202 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>  create mode 100644 tools/lib/luo/cli/.gitignore
>>  create mode 100644 tools/lib/luo/cli/Makefile
>>  create mode 100644 tools/lib/luo/cli/luoctl.c
>
> In the calls I thought the plan had changed to put libluo in its own
> repository?
>
> There is nothing tightly linked to the kernel here, I think it would
> be easier on everyone to not add ordinary libraries to the kernel
> tree.

As this is an evolving mechanism, having the corresponding library in
the kernel similar to what we do with perf and other things makes a lot
of sense.

Thanks,

        tglx