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From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com>
To: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>, Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	"Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Bill Wendling <morbo@google.com>,
	Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>,
	linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf docs: Mark the Android document as obsolete
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:40:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d2f1b470-fb81-4380-8957-aa56efabf58e@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e5aa1e1-e5c4-49bb-a43b-a119710a000c@linaro.org>



On 7/16/24 10:10, James Clark wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 15, 2024 at 7:34 AM Leo Yan <leo.yan@arm.com> wrote:

[...]

>> I think this is objectively worse than just removing the file. It is
> 
> Objectively worse is a bit strong. There was some discussion on the
> previous version about the reasoning, but the point is to leave keywords
> so that someone re-writing the NDK docs in the future can find it and
> then the history will be preserved rather than putting it in a new file
> with a new name. Or even someone wondering why their build command
> doesn't work has at least something documented about it, even as a negative.

It is critical for the document not delivering any confusion. Keeping
the doc with a clear clarification, or deleting the useless doc, both
are much better than obsolete info.

> Of course this all depends on whether we decide the Android build
> _should_ be working or not which looks like is also being discussed here.

Yeah, I think the important thing is to get clang/LLVM cross build to
work. This is the prerequisites for using Android NDK.

Thanks,
Leo

      reply	other threads:[~2024-07-16 10:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-15 14:33 [PATCH v2] perf docs: Mark the Android document as obsolete Leo Yan
2024-07-15 15:29 ` James Clark
2024-07-15 17:17 ` Ian Rogers
2024-07-15 19:31   ` Leo Yan
2024-07-15 19:44     ` Ian Rogers
2024-07-15 20:06       ` Ian Rogers
2024-07-15 20:36         ` Leo Yan
2024-07-15 21:21           ` Ian Rogers
2024-07-16 10:06             ` Leo Yan
2024-07-16 13:30               ` Ian Rogers
2024-07-16 13:49                 ` Leo Yan
2024-07-16 15:05                   ` Ian Rogers
2024-07-16 15:41                     ` Leo Yan
2024-07-15 20:10       ` Leo Yan
2024-07-16  9:10   ` James Clark
2024-07-16 10:40     ` Leo Yan [this message]

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