From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/18] tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/vhost.h Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:32:08 -0300 Message-ID: <20170802183208.GI12201@kernel.org> References: <20170801195645.16986-1-acme@kernel.org> <20170801195645.16986-17-acme@kernel.org> <20170802001802-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20170802141837.GG12201@kernel.org> <20170802184245-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170802184245-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Hunter , David Ahern , Jason Wang , Jiri Olsa , Namhyung Kim , Wang Nan List-Id: linux-perf-users.vger.kernel.org Em Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 06:44:14PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin escreveu: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:18:37AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > Em Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 12:19:18AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin escreveu: > > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:56:43PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > > > We will use it to generate tables for beautifying ioctl's 'cmd' arg. > > > Is this what tools/perf always does? Isn't there a way > > > to reuse the single header? > > So, that is how we did it at first, we tried to use files from the > > kernel from tools/ directly, and it worked most of the time. > > Shortest summary: We don't want to add to the workload of kernel > > developers, they don't have to care about tools/, if they don't want to. > OK then, thanks for the explanation. But if you want to, feel right at home! 8-) - Arnaldo