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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0906111223250.3573@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>
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



On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, David Newall wrote:
> 
> 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.

No. I'm saying that if there's a big overlap with _kernel_ developers 
(which there is), then they can maintain the tree.

		Linus
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