Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752421Ab0ATOUx (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:20:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751999Ab0ATOUw (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:20:52 -0500 Received: from mailout1.w1.samsung.com ([210.118.77.11]:31075 "EHLO mailout1.w1.samsung.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751232Ab0ATOUt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:20:49 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 602 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:20:48 EST Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:09:55 +0100 From: =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBOYXphcmV3aWN6?= Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs In-reply-to: <1263996080.4283.1064.camel@laptop> To: Peter Zijlstra , Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Jamie Iles , jpihet@mvista.com, p.osciak@samsung.com, will.deacon@arm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kyungmin.park@samsung.com, mingo@elte.hu, m.szyprowski@samsung.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Tomasz Fujak Message-id: Organization: Samsung Electronics MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT User-Agent: Opera Mail/10.10 (Linux) References: <1263978706-15499-1-git-send-email-t.fujak@samsung.com> <1263978999.4283.823.camel@laptop> <20100120133145.GE4089@wear.picochip.com> <1263994779.4283.1057.camel@laptop> <20100120135553.GA22897@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <1263996080.4283.1064.camel@laptop> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 19 On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:01:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > It seems to me userspace might care about the exact platform they're > running on. In my humble opinion, user space should never care about platform it's running on. Interfaces provided by kernel should suffice to implement abstraction layer between user space and hardware. If we abandon that we're back in DOS times. But hey, again, that's just my opinion. -- Best regards, _ _ .o. | Liege of Serenely Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o ..o | Computer Science, Michał "mina86" Nazarewicz (o o) ooo +---[mina86@mina86.com]---[mina86@jabber.org]---ooO--(_)--Ooo-- -- 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/