Re: [PATCH] perf: Fix UAPI fallout

[David Howells]

Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Arnaldo: the way we include some of the include files directly 
> into tools/perf/ .c files [such as hw_breakpoint.h] and 
> represent others transparently via utils/include/ [such as 
> rbtree.h] is a bit messy and ought to be cleaned up I suspect.

I tried to make the USERINCLUDE macro in the bottom-level Makefile that, but I
didn't realise I had to export it:-(.

That, however, also brings in linux/kconfig.h but I don't know whether you
want/need that.

> I think the best model would be to cleanly separate from any 
> /usr/include/linux/ muck, which might be out of sync, and which 
> might stand in the way of changes. Is it possible to exclude all 
> of /usr/include/ and try to build purely from 
> include/uapi/linux/

You would also need arch/foo/include/uapi/.

David
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