Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754204AbZFKRIW (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:08:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751802AbZFKRIE (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:08:04 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:36845 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753428AbZFKRID (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:08:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux From: Marcel Holtmann To: Ray Lee Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Peter Zijlstra , Al Viro , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , "David S. Miller" , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0906111005g5e9cd1c7te603bcdb8c6cc921@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090611160329.GA3366@elte.hu> <20090611161714.GA5008@infradead.org> <20090611165226.GV8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1244739378.6691.540.camel@laptop> <20090611170015.GA3651@infradead.org> <2c0942db0906111005g5e9cd1c7te603bcdb8c6cc921@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:08:01 +0200 Message-Id: <1244740081.27363.41.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: 831 Lines: 26 Hi Ray, > >> No, once a kernel with this syscall gets released we most certainly > >> intend to maintain its ABI. > > > > So what point is there in keeping it in-tree except making life hell for > > packagers? > > Packagers are quite used to taking a single source tree and building > multiple packages out of it. This isn't rocket science. It's the > multiple separate trees that need to be released in lock-step that are > headaches. with the kernel as source package it is a headache and really painful. All distros struggle already enough with kernel updates. 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/