Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:35:44 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux |
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> 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?
Why you need to update the perftool not the kernel, which is very likely to be the case early on. There are ways for vendors to cope anyway - such as by deleting the tools directory from their kernel and keeping a separate perftool package that gets updated now and then from the kernel tree but is otherwise a fork
Alan
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