linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] perf: probes: move ftrace README parsing logic into trace-event-parse.c

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Message-Id: <20170307163151.GD11046@naverao1-tp.localdomain>
Date:   Tue, 7 Mar 2017 22:01:51 +0530
From:   "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] perf: probes: move ftrace README parsing logic into
 trace-event-parse.c

On 2017/03/07 04:51PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue,  7 Mar 2017 16:17:40 +0530
> "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > probe-file.c needs libelf, but scanning ftrace README does not require
> > that. As such, move the ftrace README scanning logic out of probe-file.c
> > and into trace-event-parse.c.
> 
> As far as I can see, there is no reason to push this out from probe-file.c
> because anyway this API using code requires libelf. Without this, I can
> still build perf with NO_LIBELF=1. So I wouldn't like to pick this.
> (I think we can drop this from this series)

Ok. We can drop this. I'll rework patch 6/6.

Thanks,
Naveen