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From: David Ahern <david.ahern@oracle.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/14] tools build: Allow to override feature checks setup
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:49:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F5F414.2070608@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425392797-22572-13-git-send-email-jolsa@kernel.org>

On 3/3/15 7:26 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Allowing to override configuration variables for feature
> checks. Also adding automated test and documentation.

Rather than an 'override' why not require users to specify feature 
checks of interest? ie., the previous patch moved all of perf's feature 
checks to a common Makefile. Why not have perf specify features of 
interest to it instead?

David

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-03 17:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-03 14:26 [PATCH 00/14] tools build: Move features framework into tools/build Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 01/14] tools build: Remove Copyright from credits message Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 02/14] perf build: Get rid of LIB_INCLUDE variable Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 03/14] perf build: Rename CORE_FEATURE_TESTS to FEATURE_TESTS Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 04/14] perf build: Get rid of VF_FEATURE_TESTS Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 05/14] perf build: Rename display_lib into feature_display Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 06/14] perf build: Rename display_vf to feature_verbose Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 07/14] perf build: Rename PERF-FEATURES into FEATURE-DUMP Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 08/14] perf build: Rename feature_print_var_code to print_var_code Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 09/14] perf build: Separate feature make support into config/Makefile.feature Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 10/14] perf build: Make features checks directory configurable Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 11/14] tools build: Move feature checks code under tools/build Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 17:18   ` David Ahern
2015-03-03 17:34     ` Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 12/14] tools build: Allow to override feature checks setup Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 17:49   ` David Ahern [this message]
2015-03-03 17:55     ` Jiri Olsa
2015-03-04 12:23   ` Namhyung Kim
2015-03-04 12:37     ` [PATCHv2 " Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 13/14] tools build: Fix feature_check name clash Jiri Olsa
2015-03-03 14:26 ` [PATCH 14/14] tools build: Disable default check for libbabeltrace Jiri Olsa
2015-03-04 10:40   ` [PATCHv2 " Jiri Olsa
2015-03-04 20:24     ` Ingo Molnar
2015-03-04  4:41 ` [PATCH 00/14] tools build: Move features framework into tools/build Ingo Molnar
2015-03-04 10:18   ` Jiri Olsa

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