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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:16:55 -0700
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] clang-format for v5.7-rc3
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
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On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:03 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:
>
> We (Google, Stephane Eranian, ..) have a tool that converts Intel's
> topdown metrics:
> https://download.01.org/perfmon/TMA_Metrics.xlsx
> into the json format used for metrics in perf. It is written in C++
> and we are planning to upstream it.

Oh, ok.

> There's a little more motivation in the commit message too.

Well, not really. I _did_ check the commit message. It says nothing
very useful at all, in that the kernel doesn't use C++ (aside from a
couple of clang tests), so the commit message didn't at all clarify
why we should care about C++ namespace rules..

              Linus