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Date:   Tue, 24 Apr 2018 06:59:00 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Matt Redfearn <matt.redfearn@mips.com>
Cc:     James Hogan <jhogan@kernel.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
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        Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>, oprofile-list@lists.sf.net,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] MIPS: Oprofile: Drop support
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 01:55:54PM +0100, Matt Redfearn wrote:
> The core oprofile code in drivers/oprofile/ has not seeen significant
> maintenance other than fixes to changes in other parts of the tree for
> the last 5 years at least. It looks as through the perf tool has
> more or less superceeded it's functionality.
> Additionally the MIPS architecture support has bitrotted to an extent
> meaning it is not currently functional.

I wonder if time has come to drop oprofile support entirely.

(in addition to your patch which seems more urgent)