Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:46:56 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Stephane Eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       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, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:38:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds 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.

Did you take a look a tools/perf/?  There is nothing close to hardware
at all.  It's all pretty highly abstracted away from anything resembling
the hardware through the perfcounters interface.

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