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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:54:31 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dcookies: Make dcookies depend on CONFIG_OPROFILE
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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        Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:52 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> Is it time to deprecate and eventually remove oprofile while we're at
> it?

I think it's well past time.

I think the user-space "oprofile" program doesn't actually use the
legacy kernel code any more, and hasn't for a long time.

But I might be wrong. Adding William Cohen to the cc, since he seems
to still maintain it to make sure it builds etc.

             Linus