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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 06:27:06PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:

> > Hmm, I guess this means oprofile has no chance of working
> > on Red Hat's kernels ? Bummer.
> 
> Newer oprofile does not need the exported syscall table.

Right. Assuming Linus is interested in merging the patch.
I've yet to see any kind of comment from him.

> I believe Red Hat 8.0 even ships with oprofile :)

Sort of. They've broken IA64 oprofile, and they seem not to care.

I'm pretty disgusted Arjan sent this patch without even the courtesy of
a Cc: to lkml (apologies if I just missed it).

regards
john

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