Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 03:21:49 -0700
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Bill Huey (hui)" <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockdep: lock contention tracking
Message-ID: <20070521102149.GD4593@gnuppy.monkey.org>
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On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:55:47AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:36:39AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > you got the history wrong i think: the first version of lockdep was 
> > released to lkml a year ago (May 2006), while the first time you 
> > mentioned your lock contention patch was November 2006 and you released 
> > it to lkml in December 2006 - so it was _you_ who was "replicating the 
> > same work", not lockdep :-) And this was pointed out to you very early 
> > on, many months ago.
> 
> And lockmeter, the very first patch of this sort is from the 90s, but
> got mostly ignored here on lkml, of course :)

Unfortunately, it's not nearly as cool as my patch by default because I wrote
it. :)

bill

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