linux-kernel - Re: anyone including <linux/perf

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Message-ID: <20091216145120.GL28962@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:51:20 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: anyone including <linux/perf_counter.h>?

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:42:50AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   just prepping to run my cleanup suggestion scripts after the merge
> window closes, quick test run on some scripts and ran across the fact
> that no one appears to be including <linux/perf_counter.h>.
> 
>   any value to that file?  just curious.  much more pedantry after the
> merge window, of course.
> 

See the comment at the top, it's being provided to provide the old names
to userspace for a short time, now that the functionality has been renamed
to perf_events.

--kyle
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