Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758331AbZFKWS7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:18:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753324AbZFKWSv (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:18:51 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.157]:24421 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751536AbZFKWSu (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:18:50 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=gDbn+FFehBirLd8L0Uxm2DUNHDD8IUuthKbHJ47tDr6b7oNqv57AHXW6Oec+7uXafR Was89O1lHll4a0iOYzNomGtQT727ryAKRYt/j1fW2Su87sxv6noqAW9e/zxO+ZR/INyP UlpZ7d4W9KvEL7GwwwGuc6vetvQIA12lclCB0= Message-ID: <4A3182C6.803@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:18:46 +0200 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1pre) Gecko/20090528 SUSE/3.0b2-11.4 Thunderbird/3.0b3pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sam Ravnborg CC: Marcel Holtmann , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Martin Bligh , Christoph Hellwig , Peter Zijlstra , Al Viro , "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: <20090611165226.GV8633@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <1244739378.6691.540.camel@laptop> <20090611170015.GA3651@infradead.org> <33307c790906111124m17e57332oc38c89fa70e39231@mail.gmail.com> <20090611202341.GA23590@elte.hu> <1244753357.27363.82.camel@violet> <20090611210810.GA9317@uranus.ravnborg.org> <1244755036.27363.93.camel@violet> <20090611212635.GA9446@uranus.ravnborg.org> In-Reply-To: <20090611212635.GA9446@uranus.ravnborg.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96a Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1489 Lines: 35 Hi. On 06/11/2009 11:26 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:17:16PM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote: >> I personally would expect a perf.git on kernel.org for the userspace >> tools for it. Like we have udev.git there, iproute2.git and others. >> >> Seems to be working perfectly fine (except of course oprofile) and makes >> packaging and security updates a lot easier. > There is nothing preventing us from adding support for rpm and source rpms. > So you just grab the relevant tre and issue a few cammnds and you have your > packages. Bah, having 40M .src.rpm for a 5k binary package? Maybe I'm missing something, how exactly do you conceive the packaging? Or do you expect packagers to download a kernel package, untar it, get tools/ dir, tar it and package? I hope not :). And how would we cope with a different release cycle of the userspace tool? If one rewrites a part totally independent on the kernel, do they need to wait for the next kernel release? Or just merge it at any time and packagers pick it up? > And for security fixes we have the stable kernels. So packagers will stick with the latest stable, right? With backporting of (only stable) new fancy features from current git until next kernel release. -- 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/