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Message-ID: <4A315C9F.8050908@davidnewall.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:05:59 +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:
> To take the oprofile example that decided it for me: the code to actually
> support new processors was all done by basically kernel developers. And it
> didn't hit user land for almost a year, because the user-land tools didn't
> take the patch and propagate it up.
>
Bad developer, Spot, you only did half the job. Not sure there's much
more one can say.
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