Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932857Ab1EFV3e (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 17:29:34 -0400 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:48924 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932718Ab1EFV3d (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2011 17:29:33 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.64,328,1301900400"; d="scan'208";a="639177097" Message-ID: <4DC4683C.6070208@linux.intel.com> Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 14:29:32 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel , Frederic Weisbecker , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Fix powerTOP regression with 2.6.39-rc5 References: <4DC45537.6070609@linux.intel.com> <1304713252.25414.2532.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 828 Lines: 19 On 5/6/2011 1:51 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > You could help fix the tools, and try to avoid the compatibility > issues that way. There aren't that many of them. once we have a usable library for these (and by usable, I mean that, eg something that someone like Fedora or Ubuntu can package and install) I will be more than happy to use it in PowerTOP. Today that does not exist. If such library becomes reality soon, then I'll adjust PowerTOP soon as well, and we can remove the padding some time after that even if that is really desired. But we're talking 4 bytes here.... -- 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/