Re: [PATCH V3 2/6] perf: Passing struct perf_event to function setup_aux()

From: Mathieu Poirier
Date: Mon Aug 08 2016 - 10:44:57 EST


On 8 August 2016 at 04:49, Alexander Shishkin
<alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:42:19PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote:
>>> Some information, like driver specific configuration, is found
>>> in the hw_perf_event structure. As such pass a 'struct perf_event'
>>> to function setup_aux() rather than just the CPU number so that
>>> individual drivers can make the right configuration when setting
>>> up a session.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Yeah, no objection to this.
>
> Sure, but I'd like a commit message that actually describes *what*
> information and *why*.

Sure, I'll make it more explicit in the next revision.

Mathieu

>
> Regards,
> --
> Alex