Re: [PATCH 09/13] perf tools: Add perf download to download event files

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 2014-07-17 at 12:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> this bit needs more discussion:
> 
> * Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Add a downloader to automatically download the right
> > files from a download site.
> 
> 'A download site' is way too vague and detached from the perf project.
> 
> > +	echo "Downloading models file"
> > +	URLBASE=${URLBASE:-https://download.01.org/perfmon}
> 
> We want these description files to be in the perf source code, 
> somewhere in tools/perf/live-config/arch/x86/ or so, and installed 
> during 'make install' - i.e. part of perf project and installed in 
> ~/.debug or ~/.perf or so.

Surely the shipped versions should go in /usr/share/perf or something like
that? Rather than a particular users home directory?

> Those files could be refreshed via 'perf download' and could be 
> accessible via kernel.org as well, 'perf download' should pick up 
> these files from Linus's latest git repository (via the HTTP 
> namespace).

This version would go in ~/.perf or similar.

cheers


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