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Message-Id: <1244740081.27363.41.camel@violet>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:08:01 +0200
From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
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
Hi Ray,
> >> 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.
with the kernel as source package it is a headache and really painful.
All distros struggle already enough with kernel updates.
Regards
Marcel
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