Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:47:32 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>,
        Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>,
        Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: Fix powerTOP regression with 2.6.39-rc5
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* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> [...] Thus a library is a perfect solution. [...]

Btw., just to make things clear, if we indeed have a library to parse things 
and if all apps use that then the ABI moves to another (library) level.

The requirement from my maintenance POV is very, very simple: apps should not 
break on new kernels. If this is achieved by making apps smarter then that's a 
valid solution.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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