Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275399AbTHNRbp (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:31:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S273389AbTHNRbp (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:31:45 -0400 Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.93]:20744 "EHLO serenity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275423AbTHNRaZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 13:30:25 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:30:24 +0100 From: John Levon To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Alan Cox , Russell King , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make modules work in Linus' tree on ARM Message-ID: <20030814173024.GA42066@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <20030814165512.GA36329@compsoc.man.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: King of Woolworths - L'Illustration Musicale X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *19nLvc-00029o-Vt*W1eBHKLvL0w* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 23 On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:14:37AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Why not just fix the oprofile interfaces to contain that information? You > already have to export CPU type, buffer size etc.. I'll quite happily do that. I'd assumed it was also rejected for bloat reasons based on your previous objections that it was/should be entirely a userspace issue. If you'll take /dev/oprofile/pointer_size now, then I'm more than happy to drop the kcore sniffing (and I don't have the a.out problem any more) regards john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/