Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:46:56 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux |
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 09:38:32AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > so do you expect us to merge stuff like ip, iw, rfkill, crda, the WiMAX > > tools, the Bluetooth ones and whatever we have that are all have the > > same issues to be merged into the kernel source code as well. > > No. Only stuff that I expect to be really close to hardware, and used for > kernel purposes.
Did you take a look a tools/perf/? There is nothing close to hardware at all. It's all pretty highly abstracted away from anything resembling the hardware through the perfcounters interface.
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