linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf tools: remove .. in perf includes/

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:45:11 -0800
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>
CC:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: remove .. in perf includes/

On 1/30/2012 11:14 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:36:44PM -0800, Andi Kleen escreveu:
>> From: Andi Kleen<ak@...ux.intel.com>
>>
>> The perf user space has a lot of includes with ugly .. chains. This also
>> makes it impossible to include any perf files from other code.
>>
>> I think the original reason for this were some wrapper include files
>> for the kernel includes, and the explicit paths were needed to avoid
>> endless recursion. A better way to handle this is #include_next
>>
>> - Add all the relevant directories as -I in the Makefile
>> - Remove (near) all the .. in include statements
>> - Remove unnecessary wrappers that do nothing
>> - Fix up some fallout
>>
>> This makes the code more pleasant to read.
>>
>> I did it all in one big patch to keep bisectability.
> It builds, but breaks this:

Hmm cannot reproduce. The extra tarball builds fine and includes memset_64.S
with my patch on Linus latest.

-Andi


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