Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:38:32 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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       Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 
> so do you expect us to merge stuff like ip, iw, rfkill, crda, the WiMAX
> tools, the Bluetooth ones and whatever we have that are all have the
> same issues to be merged into the kernel source code as well.

No. Only stuff that I expect to be really close to hardware, and used for 
kernel purposes.

> Also please consider the distro point of view. All these distros have
> already a hard time to keep up with the kernel patches etc. It is a lot
> easier to update a userspace package then having to provide a patches
> kernel source.

Feel free to split it all up if it turns out to be stable later.

But I refuse to go through another oprofile.

		Linus
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