'perf upgrade' (was: Re: [PATCH v9 00/11] Add support for JSON event files.)

[Michael Ellerman]

On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 10:55 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is another attempt to resurrect Andi Kleen's patchset so users
> > can specify perf events by their event names rather than raw codes.
> > 
> > This is a rebase of Andi Kleen's patchset from Jul 30, 2014[1] to 4.0.
> > (I fixed minor and not so minor conflicts).
> 
> So this series shows some progress, but instead of this limited 
> checkout ability I'd still prefer it if 'perf download' downloaded the 
> latest perf code itself and built it - it shouldn't be limited to just 
> a small subset of the perf source code!

Ingo, can you please stop blocking this? It's getting ridiculous.

We've been waiting over 8 months for this to go in.

While we've been waiting most of our users have learnt to use operf instead,
which doesn't require raw codes.

I would also add that exactly zero users have asked for a feature where perf
downloads and rebuilds itself. In fact many of them would consider that a
security breach.

cheers