Re: [PATCHv2 1/1] perf: Port to Android

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:08:45 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 03:32:50PM -0600, David Ahern wrote:
> > 
> > > Why not add support for the missing functions (on_exit, getsid,
> > > psignal and getline) to Bionic instead of perf?
> > 
> > Many vendors need to target existing Android platforms and 
> > don't have the luxury of waiting for code to get through 
> > Google review and then land on devices between 6 months in 
> > the future and never. The embedded world is dysfunctional in 
> > a whole bunch of ways.
> 
> So add a small library and link with -lstuffandroidforgot. 
> That's basically how the FSF dealt with all the proprietary 
> Unix library messes.
> 
> Come to think of it call the library "integrated build runtime 
> environment" and you can like with -libre ;)
> 
> It's also going to be far more maintainable and generically 
> useful for porting tools from GNU to 'droid userspace.

Well, you should see the uglies Git has to support Windows ;-)

Anyway, I'm not against making perf work on Android in 
principle, it is Obviously Useful (tm).

Thanks,

	Ingo