Re: Fix powerTOP regression with 2.6.39-rc5

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Tue May 10 2011 - 05:15:09 EST


On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >Steve, we even joked about that, that if we continue like this we'll end up
>> >with an XML parser ... I requested several changes to the description format so
>> >that it becomes more human readable.
>>
>> frankly, for software, XML is easier to deal with than the human
>> readable form.
>
> Yes, absolutely - still i think keeping it human readable is important.

This is getting slightly off-topic but there are good human readable
formats that are also easily parseable by computers. JSON and YAML
come to mind.
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