Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:49:44 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux |
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Alan Cox wrote: > > That misses the point, at least for the systems as the work now. Having a > single source package to multiple binaries is easy. Managing setups where > you push only some of those binaries into the system gets really ugly.
Umm. But what's the problem?
Sure, you'd always update the 'kernel-perftool' package (or whatever you'd call it) when you update the kernel. But so what? It's going to be tiny. And appropriate.
IOW, where's the downside?
Linus
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