linux-kernel - Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter tools: Generate per command manpages (and pdf/html, etc.)

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Message-ID: <20090530172305.GA8985@elte.hu>
Date:	Sat, 30 May 2009 19:23:05 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, paulus@...ba.org, acme@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jkacur@...hat.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, efault@....de, mtosatti@...hat.com,
	tglx@...utronix.de, cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter tools: Generate per
	command manpages (and pdf/html, etc.)


* Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> wrote:

> > > > Import Git's nice .txt => {man/html/pdf} generation machinery.
> > 
> > The .txt files were already present, so the patch is largely the 
> > infrastructure patch. The fixes to .txt files were minimal.
> 
> We do not copy Git's .txt => {man/html/pdf} support only to 
> support perfcounters.
>
> Either perfcounters use the infrastructure already present or it 
> establish a parallel infrastrucutre we can start to migrate over 
> to.
> 
> In an area where there is so little interest shown as in 
> documentation generation we do not want to have two different ways 
> to generate man pages, html etc.
> 
> IMO the ascii doc support from git is superior to what we have 
> today so I am all for replacing the current stuff. But then we 
> should do is properly and not as some perfconuter only stuff.

I still think you are misunderstanding it. It is a user-space 
tool(-set) with its own needs to install manpages and other 
documentation. Look at the code.

	Ingo
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