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Message-ID: <2c0942db0906111005g5e9cd1c7te603bcdb8c6cc921@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:05:02 -0700
From: Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Christoph Hellwig<hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:56:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> No, once a kernel with this syscall gets released we most certainly
>> intend to maintain its ABI.
>
> So what point is there in keeping it in-tree except making life hell for
> packagers?
Packagers are quite used to taking a single source tree and building
multiple packages out of it. This isn't rocket science. It's the
multiple separate trees that need to be released in lock-step that are
headaches.
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