linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/14] perf report: remove code to handle inline frames from browsers

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Date:   Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:22:08 +0200
From:   Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@...b.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jin Yao <yao.jin@...ux.intel.com>, Linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/14] perf report: remove code to handle inline frames from browsers

On Montag, 7. August 2017 17:07:10 CEST Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 11:24:33PM +0200, Milian Wolff escreveu:
> > The follow-up commits will make inline frames first-class citizens
> > in the callchain, thereby obsoleting all of this special code.
> 
> So you are removing the feature to then reintroduce it, is that it? That
> is not usual :-\
> 
> Normally we go on replacing bit by bit or have some ifdef, etc, to then
> phase out the old code.
> 
> Perhaps in this case your approach is the best one, still have to look
> at all of it, and it would help if the people behind the original code
> could review this, Yao Jin, can you take a look at this patch series,
> please?

Yes, I also did that in v1 of this patch series. Note that I can easily squash 
this, if needed. But I personally think for reviewing purposes, having it as 
separate patches is far better.

Cheers

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