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Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:02:56 +0100
From: "stephane eranian" <eranian@googlemail.com>
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To: "Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v3
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Hi,

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> FOSS is about freedom - we don't force anyone to use our code.  If
> someone wants to use their own code instead of glibc or libpfm on the
> user-space side of the syscall interface, that's fine.
>
Exactly right!

That was exactly my point when I said, you are free to not use libpfm
in your tool.
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