Em Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 11:19:33AM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> 
> * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > From: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> > 
> > Preparing for feature checks separation, moving related stuff under
> > 'FEATURE*' namespace.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Corey Ashford <[email protected]>
> > Cc: David Ahern <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
> 
> So I think the various capital letter files in $(cwd) are highly 
> suboptimal:
> 
>  FEATURE-DUMP
>  PERF-CFLAGS
>  PERF-VERSION-FILE
> 
> I think we should standardize on something less pushy (no shouting), 
> plus more standardized, more logical, more coherent names, i.e. 
> something like:
> 
>    .build.features.cache
>    .build.cflags
>    .build.version
> 
> ?
> 
> .build.features.* would be reserved to the generic feature detection 
> machinery.
> 
> .build.cflags and .build.version could be used by the perf build - 
> hopefully exported to tools/build/ as well in the future! :-)
> 
> That way the .gitignore could just ignore .build.* and we'd not have 
> to update it much.

Agreed, Jiri?
 
> Btw., another small nit: could we please do a (git-)rename of 
> tools/build/feature/ to tools/build/features/?

> Plural is what is used typically for generic frameworks that deal with 
> a set of items (features in this case) - for example we have 
> tools/tests/, and tools/perf/scripts/, not tools/test/ and 
> tools/perf/script/.

This one is easy enough, will do in my next pull req.

- Arnaldo
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