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Message-ID: <20071025111736.GA1414@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:17:36 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: "Villacis, Juan" <juan.villacis@...el.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, eranian@....hp.com,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IA64/perfmon: kill dead code, clean irq handling
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:05:18AM -0700, Villacis, Juan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The VTune sampling driver currently uses this hook for cases where it
> needs to do its own handling of the PMU on platforms that Perfmon2 may
> not yet (fully, correctly) recognize at the time of the kernel's
> release.
So killing it might be a good way to make the vtune folks more cooperative.
Remember we don't keep hooks for crappy out of tree code around.
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