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

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Message-ID: <20091216145851.GM28962@bombadil.infradead.org>
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:58:51 -0500
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: anyone including <linux/perf_counter.h>?

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:56:47AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>   but if it's supposed to be providing info to user-space, shouldn't
> it be *exported* to user space?  it's not listed in
> include/linux/Kbuild.  or am i misunderstanding?
> 

No, you're quite correct, my guess would be that the original
perf_counter.h header-y line was renamed to perf_event.h, and someone
forgot to add a new one for the old header.

regards, Kyle
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