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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:07:27 +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
Sorry, Linus, for the duplicate post.
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I'm saying that if there's a big overlap with _kernel_ developers
> > (which there is), then they can maintain the tree.
>
Are you suggesting that maintaining it as a separate application is
harder for them? As previously observed, the user-space stuff is quite
divorced from the hardware; and it's intended audience is user-space
developers and administrators. Did I miss something? (Obviously I didn't
miss that your decision has already been made.)
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