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From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: Perf ABI versioning
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On Monday 24 January 2011 22:57:55 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:49:13PM +0100, Thomas Renninger escreveu:
... 
> Using the /format file hashed as peterz said is elegant, fine grained
> content based ABI number :-)
Ok thanks, I should have had a closer look at the binary format.

It may make sense at some time to provide a library so that other tools
can make use of the most convenient functions in tools/perf/utils/*
as well?

I'll have a look at the powertop perf implementations I wanted to
look at anyway and try to understand the stuff a bit better.

Thanks,

       Thomas