Re: [PATCH 0/2] tools: Add a toplevel Makefile

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org> wrote:

> From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> here's a refreshed version from yesterday incorporating all comments and
> suggestions along with a third patch that adds a 'help' target as the
> default one causing the following below. Btw, Arnaldo, could you please
> pick those up if there are no complaints since the first patch touches
> perf and I don't have a clear idea who else to send it to anyway :).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> $ make

Could this also be accessible via 'make tools' in the toplevel 
Makefile?

I'd love to be able to type:

  make -j tools perf install

But ... your current patches are an improvement as well, this 
list alone:

> $ make
> Possible targets:
> 
>   cpupower   - a tool for all things x86 CPU power
>   firewire   - the userspace part of nosy, an IEEE-1394 traffic sniffer
>   lguest     - a minimal 32-bit x86 hypervisor
>   perf       - Linux performance measurements tool
>   slub       - slabs reporting tool
>   turbostat  - Intel CPU idle stats and freq reporting tool
>   usb        - USB testing tools
>   virtio     - vhost test module
>   x86_energy_perf_policy - Intel energy policy tool

is already pretty useful.

Btw., please fix the perf line to say:

s/performance measurements tool/performance measurement and analysis tool

Thanks,

	Ingo