From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S935541AbdACPM4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:12:56 -0500 Received: from mga07.intel.com ([134.134.136.100]:3329 "EHLO mga07.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758708AbdACPLN (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2017 10:11:13 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.33,455,1477983600"; d="scan'208";a="209170615" Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 07:11:06 -0800 From: Andi Kleen To: Jiri Olsa Cc: Andi Kleen , acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] perf, tools: Add probing for xed Message-ID: <20170103151106.GX8388@tassilo.jf.intel.com> References: <20170103090029.17621-1-andi@firstfloor.org> <20170103090029.17621-2-andi@firstfloor.org> <20170103145854.GB26251@krava> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170103145854.GB26251@krava> User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > please don't put it in FEATURE_DISPLAY.. AFAICS there's not any xed > package yet, just the sources, so the "xed: OFF" build message would > bother almost everyone probably for long time.. It should be eventually packaged. How would people know they are missing it without displaying it? I think it has to, otherwise most people will miss out on the feature. Silent failure is bad. -Andi