linux-kernel - Re: crazy idea (was: Re: [PATCH] perf tool: Carve out ctype.h et al)

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:58:31 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>
Cc:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Jean Pihet <jean.pihet@...aro.org>,
	Fu Wei <fu.wei@...aro.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Subject: Re: crazy idea (was: Re: [PATCH] perf tool: Carve out ctype.h et al)

Em Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 04:50:31PM +0200, Robert Richter escreveu:
> On 30.06.14 12:01:15, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > Well, do you have it as a standalong program? If so, you can put it in
> > a repo somewhere and we can start hacking away and playing with it. If
> > not, we will have to copy the perf code *into* the RAS daemon first so
> > that we can have a separate source on which we all can work on.

> > Someone should be a maintainer of some sorts who merges the patches.

> > And we will continue working on the split so that once the perf tool is
> > properly separated, we can switch to it in the RAS daemon and drop the
> > copied code.

> > This is, to me at least, the best possible thing we can do right now so
> > as not to slow us all down.

> > Any other opinions?
 
> Perfectly fine with me.

Yeap, guess its the most sensible to do given how things went so far.

Please submit patches when you fix things on code copied from
tools/perf/ and generally when improving it.

- Arnaldo
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