From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755088AbbDNLWf (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:22:35 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:46086 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932166AbbDNLVv (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Apr 2015 07:21:51 -0400 Message-ID: <1429010508.27414.1.camel@ellerman.id.au> Subject: Re: 'perf upgrade' (was: Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Add support for JSON event files.) From: Michael Ellerman To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu , mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , peterz@infradead.org, namhyung@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 21:21:48 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20150414085541.GA30202@gmail.com> References: <1428993665-2133-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20150414085541.GA30202@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.10-0ubuntu1~14.10.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 10:55 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > > > This is another attempt to resurrect Andi Kleen's patchset so users > > can specify perf events by their event names rather than raw codes. > > > > This is a rebase of Andi Kleen's patchset from Jul 30, 2014[1] to 4.0. > > (I fixed minor and not so minor conflicts). > > So this series shows some progress, but instead of this limited > checkout ability I'd still prefer it if 'perf download' downloaded the > latest perf code itself and built it - it shouldn't be limited to just > a small subset of the perf source code! Ingo, can you please stop blocking this? It's getting ridiculous. We've been waiting over 8 months for this to go in. While we've been waiting most of our users have learnt to use operf instead, which doesn't require raw codes. I would also add that exactly zero users have asked for a feature where perf downloads and rebuilds itself. In fact many of them would consider that a security breach. cheers