Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760753AbZLPPCM (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:02:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758102AbZLPPCK (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:02:10 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:47260 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756867AbZLPPCJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:02:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:01:39 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Kyle McMartin cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: anyone including ? In-Reply-To: <20091216145851.GM28962@bombadil.infradead.org> Message-ID: References: <20091216145120.GL28962@bombadil.infradead.org> <20091216145851.GM28962@bombadil.infradead.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1609 Lines: 40 On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Kyle McMartin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:56:47AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > See the comment at the top, it's being provided to provide the > > > old names to userspace for a short time, now that the > > > functionality has been renamed to perf_events. > > > > but if it's supposed to be providing info to user-space, > > shouldn't it be *exported* to user space? it's not listed in > > include/linux/Kbuild. or am i misunderstanding? > > No, you're quite correct, my guess would be that the original > perf_counter.h header-y line was renamed to perf_event.h, and > someone forgot to add a new one for the old header. so i can submit a patch to do one of two things: 1) add it into Kbuild, since user-space needs it, or 2) delete it entirely since it's never been in user-space all this time but no one seems to have missed it. :-) thoughts? i'm fine either way. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- 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/