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

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Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:49:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@...gle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"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 Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> That misses the point, at least for the systems as the work now. Having a
> single source package to multiple binaries is easy. Managing setups where
> you push only some of those binaries into the system gets really ugly.

Umm. But what's the problem?

Sure, you'd always update the 'kernel-perftool' package (or whatever you'd 
call it) when you update the kernel. But so what? It's going to be tiny. 
And appropriate.

IOW, where's the downside?

			Linus
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