From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753804AbaJGNtT (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:49:19 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:50795 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751795AbaJGNtS (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:49:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:49:12 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Jean Pihet , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Fu Wei , Robert Richter , Jiri Olsa , David Ahern , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Matt Fleming Subject: Re: perf & rasd integration plan Message-ID: <20141007134912.GE30146@pd.tnic> References: <20141006150741.GB14113@kernel.org> <20141006151605.GE4372@pd.tnic> <20141006191227.GD14113@kernel.org> <20141006195349.GE20739@pd.tnic> <20141006212243.GE14113@kernel.org> <20141007112342.GC30146@pd.tnic> <20141007134021.GH14113@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141007134021.GH14113@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 10:40:21AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Right, we now should always think that the great advantage of having > this code and its users in the same repo tree is going away, i.e. we > will not be able to improve the code by fixing mistakes that require > changing its users. Why? I mean, in the rasd case, changing function calling conventions as part of updating the perf libraries is no act. I mean, we won't link against a shared lib but build a static executable and thus the perf src lib (let's call it that - a source library) we're using is a don't care. Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --