On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 11:18:37AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 12:19:18AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin escreveu: > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:56:43PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > > > From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> > > > > > > We will use it to generate tables for beautifying ioctl's 'cmd' arg. > > > > > > Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> > > > Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> > > > Cc: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> > > > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@kernel.org> > > > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> > > > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> > > > Cc: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com> > > > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nxwpq34hu6te1m2ra5m7o...@git.kernel.org > > > Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> > > > > Is this what tools/perf always does? Isn't there a way > > to reuse the single header? > > So, that is how we did it at first, we tried to use files from the > kernel from tools/ directly, and it worked most of the time. > > Shortest summary: We don't want to add to the workload of kernel > developers, they don't have to care about tools/, if they don't want to.
OK then, thanks for the explanation. -- MST
