Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755592AbZFKTGU (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:06:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755191AbZFKTGC (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:06:02 -0400 Received: from senator.holtmann.net ([87.106.208.187]:47910 "EHLO mail.holtmann.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755097AbZFKTGA (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:06:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux From: Marcel Holtmann To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Newall , Pekka Enberg , Christoph Hellwig , Peter Zijlstra , Al Viro , Ingo Molnar , "David S. Miller" , Stephane Eranian , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner In-Reply-To: References: <20090611160329.GA3366@elte.hu> <20090611161714.GA5008@infradead.org> <20090611165226.GV8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1244739378.6691.540.camel@laptop> <20090611170015.GA3651@infradead.org> <84144f020906111059g6e25a090y4434cfd698f84fb4@mail.gmail.com> <4A3148AA.9000007@davidnewall.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:05:58 +0200 Message-Id: <1244747158.27363.59.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: 990 Lines: 29 Hi Linus, > > What I'm saying is that this doesn't sound like something that needs > > user-space in lock-step with kernel. > > Give it a rest. > > If that's true, then in a year or two we can just split it up already. > > But I note (once more) how _nobody_ has actually been able to accept the > fact that oprofile was an abject failure as it was split up. Instead, you > all dance around totally irrelevant issues. so your whole reasoning is based on the fact that oprofile was a horrible failure. All the other projects/subsystems that manage this perfectly successful without breaking API/ABI abruptly and emerging slowly when things change don't count. Stop dancing around oprofile so much. It makes you dizzy ;) 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/