Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Feb 2010 12:46:39 +0100 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters |
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:24:30PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:47:48 -0500 > Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:25:56PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > >From 5db5cd76f3c16c9f6093f54d1ccfb97d04b9a1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > > > >2001 > > > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > > > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:20:57 +0200 > > > Subject: [PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to > > > get to performance counters > > > > So this patch got accepted into mainline a while ago, without a user > > ever beeing presented, nevermind actually included in mainline. Time > > to revert providing these useless exports and dead code? > > > > > Frederic had a user near mainline. > > I have one but it's .35 material at this point... > > if you want to insist to bounce the patch out now and back in > for .35... I don't care but Frederic might.
We can't. It has a user merged upstream: the hw-breakpoint subsystem.
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