Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Apr 2024 10:47:43 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET 0/9] Sync tools headers with the kernel source |
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 09:15:02AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Namhyung, Arnaldo, > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 8:55 PM Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote: > > I'm gonna carry these changes on the perf tools tree. I'll update the > > vhost.h once it lands on the mainline. > > > > This is the full explanation from Arnaldo: > > > > There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers > > directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel > > hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we > > adopted the current model. > > Do you have a reference to that?
I would have to do a search on the mailing list to find the exact exchange, this is from memory and from people asking this repeatedly.
Ingo replied with reasons similar to the ones I use in this canned explanation when sending the notice of updating the files.
- Arnaldo
> I was gonna reply to [PATCH 8/9] (where I was CCed) with "why can't > you use the original include file directly?", then read the cover letter. > > Thanks! > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds
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