Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755591Ab3ILWKs (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:10:48 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f48.google.com ([209.85.160.48]:63855 "EHLO mail-pb0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754523Ab3ILWKr (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 18:10:47 -0400 Message-ID: <52323BE4.5080100@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:10:44 -0700 From: David Ahern User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes References: <20130912133855.GA23780@gmail.com> <20130912184341.GA11400@ghostprotocols.net> <52321CE4.1080804@gmail.com> <20130912201855.GC32644@gmail.com> <20130912203831.GD11400@ghostprotocols.net> <20130912204618.GA3262@gmail.com> <52322D81.5090708@gmail.com> <20130912211846.GA7890@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130912211846.GA7890@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1143 Lines: 28 On 9/12/13 2:18 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> kconf approach of course: >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/1/600 >> (minus the manual steps in that RFC). > > I'm not sure what the end stage is where you'd like to arrive, but I don't > think that forcing a separate configuration pass is an improvement :-/ once I have a working config -- say one for a target (minimal build) and one for analysis (more but not all features -- eg., no gtk) I never see auto-probing again. At best some new feature (config) comes along and the config has to be updated again, but kconf only inquires about new features. > > By default a simple 'make' should build perf to the maximum extent > possible, with no other input required from the user - with warnings > displayed as package install suggestions. By default there is no config. Autoprobing generates a first one or a user can specify a defconfig. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/