From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/18] tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/vhost.h
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 18:44:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170802184245-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170802141837.GG12201@kernel.org>
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:
> > > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> > >
> > > We will use it to generate tables for beautifying ioctl's 'cmd' arg.
> > >
> > > Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
> > > Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
> > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nxwpq34hu6te1m2ra5m7o8n9@git.kernel.org
> > > Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> >
> > 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.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-02 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 19:56 [GIT PULL 00/18] perf/core improvements Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 01/18] perf build: Clarify header version warning message Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 02/18] perf build: Clarify open-coded " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 03/18] tools headers: Sync kernel ABI headers with tooling headers Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 04/18] tools headers: Fixup tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h copy of kernel ABI header Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 20:15 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 05/18] tools include uapi: Grab a copy of asm-generic/ioctls.h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 06/18] tools perf: Do not check spaces/blank lines when checking header file copy drift Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 07/18] tools headers: Fixup tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h copy of kernel ABI header Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 20:15 ` Daniel Borkmann
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 08/18] perf trace beauty ioctl: Improve 'cmd' beautifier Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 09/18] tools include uapi: Grab copies of drm/{drm,i915_drm}.h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 10/18] perf trace beauty ioctl: Beautify DRM ioctl cmds Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 11/18] tools include uapi: Grab a copy of sound/asound.h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 12/18] perf trace beautify ioctl: Beautify sound ioctl's 'cmd' arg Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 13/18] tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/kvm.h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 14/18] perf trace beautify ioctl: Beautify KVM ioctl's 'cmd' arg Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 15/18] perf trace beauty ioctl: Pass _IOC_DIR to the per _IOC_TYPE scnprintf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 16/18] tools include uapi: Grab a copy of linux/vhost.h Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 21:19 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-08-02 14:18 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-02 15:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-08-02 18:32 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 17/18] perf trace beautify ioctl: Beautify vhost virtio ioctl's 'cmd' arg Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-01 19:56 ` [PATCH 18/18] perf trace beautify ioctl: Beautify perf " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2017-08-10 15:09 ` [GIT PULL 00/18] perf/core improvements Ingo Molnar
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