linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

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Message-Id: <1244738822.27363.39.camel@violet>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:47:02 +0200
From:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...glemail.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

Hi Linus,

> > so do you expect us to merge stuff like ip, iw, rfkill, crda, the WiMAX
> > tools, the Bluetooth ones and whatever we have that are all have the
> > same issues to be merged into the kernel source code as well.
> 
> No. Only stuff that I expect to be really close to hardware, and used for 
> kernel purposes.

and where exactly do we draw the line? It is just no clear to me.

> > Also please consider the distro point of view. All these distros have
> > already a hard time to keep up with the kernel patches etc. It is a lot
> > easier to update a userspace package then having to provide a patches
> > kernel source.
> 
> Feel free to split it all up if it turns out to be stable later.
> 
> But I refuse to go through another oprofile.

Point taken on why you wanna do it. No questions asked here. However I
still think it is a bad idea to begin with. The perf tool could very
well has its own repository on git.kernel.org and be maintained side by
side with the kernel.

Regards

Marcel


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