Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758128AbXJYLS1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:18:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754175AbXJYLSR (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:18:17 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:35824 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753662AbXJYLSQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:18:16 -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:17:36 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Villacis, Juan" Cc: Jeff Garzik , eranian@hpl.hp.com, "Luck, Tony" , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , LKML , "Stone, Joshua I" Subject: Re: [PATCH] IA64/perfmon: kill dead code, clean irq handling Message-ID: <20071025111736.GA1414@infradead.org> References: <20071023230908.GA12417@havoc.gtf.org> <20071025084615.GA32656@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <4720592D.4030604@garzik.org> <176273AE807A344A8C14F517A8FC59C20259A09E@scsmsx412.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <176273AE807A344A8C14F517A8FC59C20259A09E@scsmsx412.amr.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 682 Lines: 15 On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:05:18AM -0700, Villacis, Juan wrote: > Hi, > > The VTune sampling driver currently uses this hook for cases where it > needs to do its own handling of the PMU on platforms that Perfmon2 may > not yet (fully, correctly) recognize at the time of the kernel's > release. So killing it might be a good way to make the vtune folks more cooperative. Remember we don't keep hooks for crappy out of tree code around. - 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/