Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757657AbYLMNso (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:48:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754719AbYLMNsf (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:48:35 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:33335 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754680AbYLMNse (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:48:34 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: 9jJVyZ7y5+zsiwTqgABuR/NNWzV31lRD/4my9ZmO4lk2 1229176112 Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:48:29 -0200 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: eranian@gmail.com, Vince Weaver , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton , Eric Dumazet , Robert Richter , Arjan van de Veen , Peter Anvin , Paul Mackerras , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v3 Message-ID: <20081213134829.GB11428@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20081211155230.GA4230@elte.hu> <1229070345.12883.12.camel@twins> <7c86c4470812120059s7f8e64a6h91ebeadbf938858d@mail.gmail.com> <1229073834.12883.41.camel@twins> <7c86c4470812120942x607a74f7w9f823adecbd73b85@mail.gmail.com> <1229167048.13566.119.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1229167048.13566.119.camel@twins> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1040 Lines: 22 On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > You have just irrevocably proven to me this needs to go into the kernel, > as the design of perfmon is little more than a GPL circumvention device > - independent of whether you are aware of that or not. As long as it uses some sort of "module plugin" approach, perhaps coupled to the firmware loader system to avoid wasting a ton of space with tables for processors other than the one you need... you could just move all of the hardware-related parts of perfmon lib into the kernel. That would close the doors to non-gpl badness. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- 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/