Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762251AbZFKQrS (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:47:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755970AbZFKQrF (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:47:05 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:57577 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753559AbZFKQrD (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:47:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux From: Marcel Holtmann To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , "David S. Miller" , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: References: <20090611160329.GA3366@elte.hu> <20090611161714.GA5008@infradead.org> <1244738098.27363.36.camel@violet> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:47:02 +0200 Message-Id: <1244738822.27363.39.camel@violet> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1255 Lines: 35 Hi Linus, > > 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. and where exactly do we draw the line? It is just no clear to me. > > 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. Point taken on why you wanna do it. No questions asked here. However I still think it is a bad idea to begin with. The perf tool could very well has its own repository on git.kernel.org and be maintained side by side with the kernel. Regards Marcel -- 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/