Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753406AbXKNHZS (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:25:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750955AbXKNHZF (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:25:05 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:52135 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750933AbXKNHZC (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:25:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18234.41652.199520.31261@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:24:36 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Andrew Morton Cc: Greg KH , Philip Mucci , eranian@hpl.hp.com, William Cohen , Robert Richter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Perfmon , Andi Kleen , perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, OSPAT devel , papi list Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news In-Reply-To: <20071113120728.4342e7d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20071107003454.GA13374@kroah.com> <20071109120627.60ec9ab4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20071109213829.GC28276@kroah.com> <20071113151718.GA3804@erda.amd.com> <4739C42F.8030208@redhat.com> <20071113175545.GD4319@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <53F4663B-CFBA-44E4-8283-BAAC8C8F1AFF@cs.utk.edu> <20071113185924.GA22748@suse.de> <20071113120728.4342e7d7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 949 Lines: 22 Andrew Morton writes: > I was hoping that after the round of release-and-review which Stephane, > Andi and I did about twelve months ago that we were on track to merge the > perfmon codebase as-offered. But now it turns out that the sentiment is > that the code simply has too many bells-and-whistles to be acceptable. Whose sentiment? I've had a bit of a look at it today together with David Gibson. Our impression is that the latest version is a lot cleaner and simpler than it used to be. I'm also reading Stephane's technical report which describes the interface, and whilst I'm only part-way through it, I haven't seen anything yet which strikes me as unnecessary or overly complicated. Paul. - 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/