From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 0/9] Sync tools headers with the kernel source
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 08:54:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM9d7ci+r73oNUOS7zjHmRGkQk0OhLAdv4zqt7BV+y4jb1rkwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZhVG_9KpcWLLhc-s@x1>
Hello,
On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 6:47 AM Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 09:15:02AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Hi Namhyung, Arnaldo,
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 8:55 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
> > > I'm gonna carry these changes on the perf tools tree. I'll update the
> > > vhost.h once it lands on the mainline.
> > >
> > > This is the full explanation from Arnaldo:
> > >
> > > There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
> > > directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
> > > hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
> > > adopted the current model.
> >
> > Do you have a reference to that?
>
> I would have to do a search on the mailing list to find the exact
> exchange, this is from memory and from people asking this repeatedly.
>
> Ingo replied with reasons similar to the ones I use in this canned
> explanation when sending the notice of updating the files.
This is the Ingo's reply:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZhTwPLliHXKPAJUQ@gmail.com/
Thanks,
Namhyung
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-09 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-08 18:55 [PATCHSET 0/9] Sync tools headers with the kernel source Namhyung Kim
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 1/9] tools/include: Sync uapi/drm/i915_drm.h with the kernel sources Namhyung Kim
2024-04-09 7:26 ` Jani Nikula
2024-04-09 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2024-04-09 10:14 ` Jani Nikula
2024-04-09 15:58 ` Namhyung Kim
2024-04-09 17:00 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 2/9] tools/include: Sync uapi/linux/fs.h " Namhyung Kim
2024-04-09 10:04 ` Jan Kara
2024-04-09 10:10 ` Christian Brauner
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 3/9] tools/include: Sync uapi/linux/kvm.h and asm/kvm.h " Namhyung Kim
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 4/9] tools/include: Sync uapi/sound/asound.h " Namhyung Kim
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 5/9] tools/include: Sync x86 CPU feature headers " Namhyung Kim
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 6/9] tools/include: Sync x86 asm/irq_vectors.h " Namhyung Kim
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 7/9] tools/include: Sync x86 asm/msr-index.h " Namhyung Kim
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 8/9] tools/include: Sync asm-generic/bitops/fls.h " Namhyung Kim
2024-04-08 18:55 ` [PATCH 9/9] tools/include: Sync arm64 asm/cputype.h " Namhyung Kim
2024-04-08 19:13 ` [PATCHSET 0/9] Sync tools headers with the kernel source Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-04-09 7:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2024-04-09 13:58 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-04-09 15:51 ` Namhyung Kim
2024-04-09 7:15 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-04-09 13:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2024-04-09 15:54 ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
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