Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932249AbWATWYF (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:24:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932247AbWATWYE (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:24:04 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:59290 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932082AbWATWYD (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:24:03 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:22:47 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Truong, Dan" Cc: stephane.eranian@hp.com, perfmon@napali.hpl.hp.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, perfctr-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: quick overview of the perfmon2 interface Message-Id: <20060120142247.28153379.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <3C87FFF91369A242B9C9147F8BD0908A02C6955C@cacexc04.americas.cpqcorp.net> References: <3C87FFF91369A242B9C9147F8BD0908A02C6955C@cacexc04.americas.cpqcorp.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.0 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-vine-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 21 "Truong, Dan" wrote: > > Would you want Stephane to guard the extended > functionalities with tunables or something to > Disable their regular use and herd enterprise > Tools into a standard mold... yet allow R&D to > Move on by enabling the extentions? argh. I'd prefer to avoid one-month gaps in the conversation, so we don't all forget what we were talking about. Look, we just need to get these patches on the wire so we can all look at them, see what they do, understand what decisions were taken and why. The conciseness and completeness of those patches' covering descriptions will be key to helping this process along. - 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/