linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in sysfs

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:09:55 +0100
From:	Michał Nazarewicz <m.nazarewicz@...sung.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Jamie Iles <jamie.iles@...ochip.com>, jpihet@...sta.com,
	p.osciak@...sung.com, will.deacon@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kyungmin.park@...sung.com,
	mingo@...e.hu, m.szyprowski@...sung.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Tomasz Fujak <t.fujak@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC v1 0/2] Human readable performance event description in
 sysfs

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:01:20 +0100, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> It seems to me userspace might care about the exact platform they're
> running on.

In my humble opinion, user space should never care about platform it's
running on.  Interfaces provided by kernel should suffice to implement
abstraction layer between user space and hardware.  If we abandon that
we're back in DOS times.  But hey, again, that's just my opinion.

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