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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/31] perf build: Rename PERF-FEATURES into FEATURE-DUMP
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 11:13:00 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150323141300.GW16485@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150322101932.GA2255@gmail.com>

Em Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 11:19:33AM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> 
> * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> > 
> > Preparing for feature checks separation, moving related stuff under
> > 'FEATURE*' namespace.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Cc: David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com>
> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v9oo22ra70rrk1dy495a7bjc@git.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> 
> So I think the various capital letter files in $(cwd) are highly 
> suboptimal:
> 
>  FEATURE-DUMP
>  PERF-CFLAGS
>  PERF-VERSION-FILE
> 
> I think we should standardize on something less pushy (no shouting), 
> plus more standardized, more logical, more coherent names, i.e. 
> something like:
> 
>    .build.features.cache
>    .build.cflags
>    .build.version
> 
> ?
> 
> .build.features.* would be reserved to the generic feature detection 
> machinery.
> 
> .build.cflags and .build.version could be used by the perf build - 
> hopefully exported to tools/build/ as well in the future! :-)
> 
> That way the .gitignore could just ignore .build.* and we'd not have 
> to update it much.

Agreed, Jiri?
 
> Btw., another small nit: could we please do a (git-)rename of 
> tools/build/feature/ to tools/build/features/?

> Plural is what is used typically for generic frameworks that deal with 
> a set of items (features in this case) - for example we have 
> tools/tests/, and tools/perf/scripts/, not tools/test/ and 
> tools/perf/script/.

This one is easy enough, will do in my next pull req.

- Arnaldo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-23 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-19 17:04 [GIT PULL 00/31] perf/core improvements and fixes Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 01/31] perf hists browser: Simplify symbol annotation menu setup Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 02/31] perf hists browser: Fix up some branch alignment Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 03/31] perf hists: Remove hist_entry->used, not used anymore Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 04/31] perf hists browser: Allow annotating entries in callchains Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 05/31] perf tools: Fix building error for arm64 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 06/31] perf build: Disable default check for libbabeltrace Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 07/31] perf build: Move features build output under features directory Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 08/31] perf build: Fix pthread-attr-setaffinity-np include in test-all Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 09/31] perf build: Get rid of LIB_INCLUDE variable Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 10/31] perf build: Rename CORE_FEATURE_TESTS to FEATURE_TESTS Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 11/31] perf build: Get rid of VF_FEATURE_TESTS Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 12/31] perf build: Rename display_lib into feature_display Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 13/31] perf build: Rename display_vf to feature_verbose Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 14/31] perf build: Rename PERF-FEATURES into FEATURE-DUMP Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-22 10:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-23 10:57     ` Jiri Olsa
2015-03-23 14:13     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 15/31] perf build: Rename feature_print_var_code to print_var_code Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 17/31] perf tools: Fix the bash completion for listing options of perf subcommand Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 18/31] perf tools: Fix the bash completion for listing subsubcommands " Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 19/31] perf tools: Provide the right bash completion for listing options of perf subcommand subsubcommand Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 20/31] perf tools: Fix the bash completion for listing events of perf subcommand record|stat|top -e Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 21/31] perf tools: Fix the bash completion to support listing events for --event Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 22/31] perf tools: Fix the bash completion for listing subcommands of perf Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:04 ` [PATCH 23/31] perf tools: Add the bash completion for listing subsubcommands of perf data Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:05 ` [PATCH 24/31] perf tools: Add the bash completion for listing subsubcommands of perf help Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:05 ` [PATCH 25/31] perf tools: Add the bash completion for listing subsubcommands of perf script Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:05 ` [PATCH 26/31] perf tools: Add the bash completion for listing subsubcommands of perf test Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:05 ` [PATCH 27/31] perf tools: Add the bash completion for listing subsubcommands of perf timechart Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:05 ` [PATCH 28/31] perf tools: Add the bash completion for listing subsubcommands of perf trace Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:05 ` [PATCH 29/31] perf tools: Avoid confusion with preloaded bash function for perf bash completion Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:05 ` [PATCH 30/31] perf callchain: Separate eh/debug frame offset cache Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-19 17:05 ` [PATCH 31/31] perf report: Don't allow empty argument for '-t' Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-22  9:55 ` [GIT PULL 00/31] perf/core improvements and fixes Ingo Molnar

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