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Message-ID: <BANLkTinfZ9ypJoivVg6Y9EwGdAZ2QmMZuA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 May 2011 12:14:54 +0300
From:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	David Sharp <dhsharp@...gle.com>,
	Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@...gle.com>,
	Michael Rubin <mrubin@...gle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: Fix powerTOP regression with 2.6.39-rc5

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
>> >Steve, we even joked about that, that if we continue like this we'll end up
>> >with an XML parser ... I requested several changes to the description format so
>> >that it becomes more human readable.
>>
>> frankly, for software, XML is easier to deal with than the human
>> readable form.
>
> Yes, absolutely - still i think keeping it human readable is important.

This is getting slightly off-topic but there are good human readable
formats that are also easily parseable by computers. JSON and YAML
come to mind.
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