linux-kernel - Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v3

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Message-ID: <7c86c4470812150502r7363dca2sdd869965febd7b73@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:02:56 +0100
From:	"stephane eranian" <eranian@...glemail.com>
To:	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"Vince Weaver" <vince@...ter.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	"Robert Richter" <robert.richter@....com>,
	"Arjan van de Veen" <arjan@...radead.org>,
	"Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] Performance Counters for Linux, v3

Hi,

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> wrote:

> FOSS is about freedom - we don't force anyone to use our code.  If
> someone wants to use their own code instead of glibc or libpfm on the
> user-space side of the syscall interface, that's fine.
>
Exactly right!

That was exactly my point when I said, you are free to not use libpfm
in your tool.
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