From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756710Ab3ILUCq (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:02:46 -0400 Received: from mail-qc0-f180.google.com ([209.85.216.180]:36872 "EHLO mail-qc0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755242Ab3ILUCm (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:02:42 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 17:02:36 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: David Ahern Cc: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] perf fixes Message-ID: <20130912200236.GC11400@ghostprotocols.net> References: <20130912133855.GA23780@gmail.com> <20130912184341.GA11400@ghostprotocols.net> <52321CE4.1080804@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52321CE4.1080804@gmail.com> X-Url: http://acmel.wordpress.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Em Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:58:28PM -0700, David Ahern escreveu: > On 9/12/13 11:43 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > >Its something that annoys me as well, but not so much as to make me > >figure out how to make those be done only if some source file changed. > > Jiri and I have both taken stabs at a config-based build rather than > probing. Just need to finish it. But even then it would be nice to have a: make autoconfig That is what we have now, but only then we would try to do all that probing. Caching it somehow, as Ingo suggested, would get the best of both worlds. - Arnaldo