* David Woodhouse <dw...@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2018-02-05 at 16:56 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >
> > None will entail changes in the tools/perf/, synchronizing to elliminate
> > these perf build warnings:
> >
> > Warning: Kernel ABI header at
> > 'tools/arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h' differs from latest
> > version at 'arch/x86/include/asm/disabled-features.h'
> > Warning: Kernel ABI header at
> > 'tools/arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h' differs from latest
> > version at 'arch/x86/include/asm/required-features.h'
> > Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h'
> > differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeatures.h'
>
> Ick. Have we considered just using a symlink? Why have copies of the
> same header file in different places in the tree, and tooling to
> complain i̶f̶when they get out of sync?
In the past we had incidents where kernel changes broke tooling and vice versa.
This is basically a soft-COW mechanism that decouples tooling source code from
the
kernel source code, while still having a technological mechanism in place that
encourages the syncing of header files.
Thanks,
Ingo
