Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758150AbYJGXpz (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:45:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755079AbYJGXpp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:45:45 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47561 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751835AbYJGXpp (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2008 19:45:45 -0400 Message-ID: <48EBF4A2.4080202@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:45:38 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen CC: x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/3] Provide rdtscll() asm/msr.h for user space References: <20081007143.793379346@firstfloor.org> <48EBD555.9060104@kernel.org> <20081007231149.GT20740@one.firstfloor.org> <48EBEFCC.4090302@kernel.org> <20081007233709.GW20740@one.firstfloor.org> In-Reply-To: <20081007233709.GW20740@one.firstfloor.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 631 Lines: 19 Andi Kleen wrote: > > -Andi (who never got this strange meme which is floating around > in the kernel community for some time that cut'n'pasting interfaces > into user programs is a sane thing. To me it seems insane.) > Not "cutting and pasting". Librarizing. FWIW, I started a git tree for these kinds of stuff at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/cpu/libx86/libx86.git -hpa -- 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/