Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 May 2006 13:17:20 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: Is OPROFILE actively maintained? |
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On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:57:10PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> Why on earth would we want to remove a working feature ?
We don't. I personally don't want to see it go, I use it myself.
> Just because it isn't getting patched every release doesn't mean > it's rotting, Oprofile is actually one of the few kernel features > which I don't recall a single regression in since 2.6.0
It works for me, still others have claimed it's unmaintained and has issues that have not been address.
> BROKEN is for stuff that doesn't compile, or is fundamentally flawed > beyond repair at the current time (For example, needs infrastructure > work to happen before it can work correctly).
Sure, based on my personal experience oprofile works fine, I'm just putting an idea out there given comments from others.
> Oprofile fits neither of those categories.
So it should remain EXPERIMENTAL then in your view? - 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/
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