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

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Message-ID: <4A3155E3.3030603@davidnewall.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:37:15 +0930
From:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 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

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> timeliness 
> (kernel features vs taking advantage of them) and co-development (there 
> always seems to be a huge impedance mis-match between user-level 
> developers and kernel developers).

You seem to be saying that putting the code in kernel tree will make
user-level developers more responsive. FWIW (very little) I would have
quietly guessed the opposite result.
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