Re: [GIT PULL] clang-format for v5.7-rc3

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:03 PM Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We (Google, Stephane Eranian, ..) have a tool that converts Intel's
> topdown metrics:
> https://download.01.org/perfmon/TMA_Metrics.xlsx
> into the json format used for metrics in perf. It is written in C++
> and we are planning to upstream it.

Oh, ok.

> There's a little more motivation in the commit message too.

Well, not really. I _did_ check the commit message. It says nothing
very useful at all, in that the kernel doesn't use C++ (aside from a
couple of clang tests), so the commit message didn't at all clarify
why we should care about C++ namespace rules..

              Linus