Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:26:49 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 15:16 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 15:09 +0100, Michał Nazarewicz wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:01:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > > It seems to me userspace might care about the exact platform they're > > > running on. > > > > In my humble opinion, user space should never care about platform it's > > running on. Interfaces provided by kernel should suffice to implement > > abstraction layer between user space and hardware. If we abandon that > > we're back in DOS times. But hey, again, that's just my opinion. > > Well, you're completely right. But the often sad reality is that perfect > abstraction is either impossible or prohibitively expensive.
And then there is the simple matter of knowing what kind of box it is without having to resort to a screwdriver or worse.
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