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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 15:41:22 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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        Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf lock: clean the options for perf record
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 09:37:18AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 18:41 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> 
> > BTW, how do you think about the idea of exporting data in
> > python (or other neutral) expression from procfs? I feel it is a
> > good idea. Communicating with unified format between user space and
> > kernel space will reduce lots of parsing overhead. Is this too
> > aggressive or insane?
> 
> As I mentioned in another email, I have no problem with an easy to parse
> file. But I will aggressively NAK any "python" or other scripting
> language. I'm sure I would get the same response if I were to have the
> kernel outputting perl language ;)

Same for me.

But even before talking about that, I wonder if doing this is actually needed.
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