From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9393A1A59F; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="eCO367t+" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id ECE6AC433C7; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:52:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1697043127; bh=HhnREBOs8UQzGU+rguc53L2rbgDz2hFlFshHa96ZcyQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=eCO367t+WFzNPIf1LGJKHqBJ5Au7P5H/ocmI5Ji9umGbXVD2pLosjg2nr9kfOr2+1 hrxKuMKzKVaYYObvN8VkKhwv4+kp1FWiDUBkLgNByRMyW5hipjf6ahnMx5cqt0nDjB rZL+HljKJjczBid6Sm68NA0QW8/1ufjHwLTdKJe53ziQ0N5a02EFq+QgW2mxxrtVK+ pLrwF6uCW3UsD7P5XXW9geW+7Hg2grGnSyj9PxKmLTbRGdi/EtWHU+0uJRMwgaO3BP 8l5frgVrcnYaaneIu10D/IdujdUIpSYxMZrcfa0gXDR7zV1F3WyWL34Dohwg9ElGmV aaldtTbIaGNJA== Received: from [104.132.1.97] (helo=wait-a-minute.misterjones.org) by disco-boy.misterjones.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.95) (envelope-from ) id 1qqcRI-003DdV-5p; Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:52:04 +0100 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2023 17:51:57 +0100 Message-ID: <871qe1m79u.wl-maz@kernel.org> From: Marc Zyngier To: Oliver Upton Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, Mark Brown , Jing Zhang , Zenghui Yu , Suzuki K Poulose , James Morse , Paolo Bonzini , Adrian Hunter , Ian Rogers , Namhyung Kim , Jiri Olsa , Alexander Shishkin , Mark Rutland , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] tools headers arm64: Copy sysreg-defs generation from kernel source In-Reply-To: <20231010011023.2497088-2-oliver.upton@linux.dev> References: <20231010011023.2497088-1-oliver.upton@linux.dev> <20231010011023.2497088-2-oliver.upton@linux.dev> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM-LB/1.14.9 (=?UTF-8?B?R29qxY0=?=) APEL-LB/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/28.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 104.132.1.97 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: oliver.upton@linux.dev, kvm@vger.kernel.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, broonie@kernel.org, jingzhangos@google.com, yuzenghui@huawei.com, suzuki.poulose@arm.com, james.morse@arm.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, adrian.hunter@intel.com, irogers@google.com, namhyung@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, mark.rutland@arm.com, acme@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: maz@kernel.org X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on disco-boy.misterjones.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false On Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:10:18 +0100, Oliver Upton wrote: > > The system register definitions are now generated with a script over in > the kernel sources. Pull a copy into tools in anticipation of updating > dependent header files and add a common makefile for generating the > header. Rather than a copy, which makes the maintenance pretty horrible, why don't you just symlink it? Git is perfectly capable of storing them, last time I checked. Thanks, M. -- Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.