Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752124Ab1EJJO4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 05:14:56 -0400 Received: from mail-vx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:38932 "EHLO mail-vx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751034Ab1EJJOz (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 May 2011 05:14:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=ZBa8c5WdcXk1woGnFRdsO1XFJzvmb8igsunfINZNCDXO7bWCjSjbCOD+pe67soVJiy QU9TxeuLkGjnYAgc0vh8JOq5XQTbf1KpxuUl1+upYnVnIXUt6DqN0gupZxX+uujUvCE6 5wGgzzbRLV/iQwP9Dhvbhu8NAail03NIGYhpk= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110510084410.GD27426@elte.hu> References: <1304713252.25414.2532.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20110507065803.GA23414@elte.hu> <1304765110.25414.2564.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20110507144402.GC2859@elte.hu> <1304788829.11129.57.camel@frodo> <20110507190033.GA11465@elte.hu> <1304996847.2969.151.camel@frodo> <20110510080918.GB27426@elte.hu> <4DC8F831.2010404@linux.intel.com> <20110510084410.GD27426@elte.hu> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 12:14:54 +0300 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 0OZTCZ_7ng-aG-2uFLq7n4FIIg8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Fix powerTOP regression with 2.6.39-rc5 From: Pekka Enberg To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Steven Rostedt , David Sharp , Vaibhav Nagarnaik , Michael Rubin , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Christoph Hellwig , Arnd Bergmann Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 18 On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> >Steve, we even joked about that, that if we continue like this we'll end up >> >with an XML parser ... I requested several changes to the description format so >> >that it becomes more human readable. >> >> frankly, for software, XML is easier to deal with than the human >> readable form. > > Yes, absolutely - still i think keeping it human readable is important. This is getting slightly off-topic but there are good human readable formats that are also easily parseable by computers. JSON and YAML come to mind. -- 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/