linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf_event: Remove include/linux/perf

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Message-ID: <20091007094108.GA26272@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:41:08 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@...fujitsu.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf_event: Remove include/linux/perf_counter.h


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:29 +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
> > Remove include/linux/perf_counter.h because it's not used anymore after
> > one of Ingo's patch:
> 
> The intent was to keep it around for one more release so as to not 
> inconvenience userspace that relied on it too much, ie. give them time 
> to convert.

yeah. There's no real cost in keeping it around. We can remove it in .34 
or .35.

	Ingo
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