Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH [0/4] perf: clean-up of power events API | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:47:21 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 13:45 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> wrote: > > > > Most definitely. It's no accident that it took such a long time for this issue > > > to be raised in the first place. It's a rare occurance - > > > > Do you agree that this occurance happened now and these events should get cleaned > > up before ARM and other archs make use of the broken interface? > > > > If not, discussing this further, is a big waste of time... and Jean would have to > > try to adapt his ARM code on the broken ABI... > > The discussion seems to have died down somewhat. Please re-send to lkml the latest > patches you have to remind everyone of the latest state of things - the merge window > is getting near. > > My only compatibility/ABI point is basically that it shouldnt break _existing_ > tracepoints (and users thereof). If your latest bits meet that then it ought to be a > good first step. You are free to (and encouraged to) introduce more complete sets of > events.
Can we deprecate and eventually remove the old ones, or will we be forever obliged to carry the old ones too?
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