Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758434AbZFKTgS (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:36:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754163AbZFKTgH (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:36:07 -0400 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:48931 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753808AbZFKTgH (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:36:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4A315C9F.8050908@davidnewall.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:05:59 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090318) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: 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 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux 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> <4A314F37.2080202@davidnewall.com> <4A3155E3.3030603@davidnewall.com> 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: 632 Lines: 14 Linus Torvalds wrote: > To take the oprofile example that decided it for me: the code to actually > support new processors was all done by basically kernel developers. And it > didn't hit user land for almost a year, because the user-land tools didn't > take the patch and propagate it up. > Bad developer, Spot, you only did half the job. Not sure there's much more one can say. -- 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/