On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 10:32 +0400, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
> Hi Chris!
> Thank you for your answer.
> 
> Chris Ferron wrote:
> > On 07/20/2012 12:06 AM, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
> >>
> >> Linaro has made only few commits after forking from mainline.
> >>
> >> They are:
> >>
> >> 1) adding __NR_perf_event_open define
> > Please insure this is fresh code authored by you and detailed if you 
> > submit, and I will be happy to take it.
> Yes, this is just a system call number copied from unistd.h for ARM 
> platform.
> Without it PowerTOP will not know what system call number 
> __NR_perf_event_open has on ARM.

Why can't it take __NR_perf_event_open from the libc headers?
That is, why can't the whole ifdef under /* some people have stale
headers */ go?

Powertop is rather demanding with regards to the environment anyhow and
magic constants are never fun.

/MF