Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] perf docs: Remove the Android cross building document

[Leo Yan]

On 7/12/24 14:38, James Clark wrote:

[...]

> > Given the test result, my conclusion is the doc for Android cross building
> > is not useful for a long while. If we really want to support it, I would
> > like to suggest to take a separate task for fixing LLVM / Clang cross
> > compilation.
>
> We could replace the entire contents of the file with something like
> "Android NDK compilation deprecated -- no longer supported". It might
> help someone in being able to recover the history of the file by leaving
> in some keywords. If you delete it it becomes very unlikely that the
> history will be found by someone trying to get it working again.

A specific Android version has corresponding Linux kernels. It is likely
developers can find what they want, as they should work on an relative
old kernel source tree.

Given Namhyung and you both are concerned for removing the doc, I have
followed the suggestion, respined this patch and sent sepearately [1],
as this patch is not really related to cross building fix.

Thanks,
Leo

[1] 
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-perf-users/20240715143342.52236-1-leo.yan@xxxxxxx/T/#u