Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757112AbZFKSE5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:04:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756827AbZFKSEc (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:04:32 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:48858 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756821AbZFKSEb (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:04:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4A314729.8030605@davidnewall.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:34:25 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Marcel Holtmann , Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , "David S. Miller" , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux References: <20090611160329.GA3366@elte.hu> <20090611161714.GA5008@infradead.org> <1244738098.27363.36.camel@violet> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 966 Lines: 21 Linus Torvalds wrote: > 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. Whilst having no opinion on the matter, I can't help noticing that Ingo said its "main focus is on measuring/profilig user-space apps" (sic), so I think its use is not for kernel purposes. Coupled with Christoph's observation that the tool is nowhere close to the hardware, it appears neither of your two criteria apply to this. -- 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/