linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/10] tooling headers: Synchronize updated s390 kvm UAPI headers

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Date:   Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:53:10 +0100
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@...hat.com>,
        Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/10] tooling headers: Synchronize updated s390 kvm UAPI
 headers


* Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com> wrote:

> Arnaldo
> 
> what is the proposed way of forwarding kvm uapi changes to the perf copy?
> Are you going to detect and fixup that yourself? Do you want to be notified?
> Or do you even want to have a patch?

Yes, that's the normal flow: you can just ignore any warnings, we are syncing the 
headers up at around -rc1. (Many of them are already synced up.)

I.e. there's no constraint on kernel development and there's no need for you to 
deal with tooling details.

Thanks,

	Ingo