From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751664AbcBLWMg (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:12:36 -0500 Received: from mail-ig0-f172.google.com ([209.85.213.172]:38671 "EHLO mail-ig0-f172.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751264AbcBLWMf (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:12:35 -0500 From: Vince Weaver X-Google-Original-From: Vince Weaver Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 17:12:32 -0500 (EST) X-X-Sender: vince@macbook-air To: Ingo Molnar cc: Vince Weaver , jolsa@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bp@suse.de, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, acme@redhat.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, eranian@google.com, peterz@infradead.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: {SPAM?} Re: [tip:perf/core] perf/x86: Move perf_event.c ............... => x86/events/core.c In-Reply-To: <20160209140551.GC26641@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1454947748-28629-2-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <20160209140551.GC26641@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 9 Feb 2016, Ingo Molnar wrote: > see for example how Git still knows that we had a > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/perf_counter.c initial file name. > > Or how you did an optimization in c48b60538c3ba when the file was already named > cpu/perf_event.c! :-) yes, for simple renames it works, but once files start getting "reorganized" and split up it gets tricky. For example trying to track things across the single perf_event.h to the separate perf_event.h files after the UAPI split is always a pain. But anyway, it sounds like the renames are being done for reasonably good reasons, it's just the tip commit message that came my way didn't have this extra context. Thanks, Vince