linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters

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Message-ID: <20100205154748.GA11469@infradead.org>
Date:	Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:47:48 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...e.hu, peterz@...radead.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to
	get to performance counters

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:25:56PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >From 5db5cd76f3c16c9f6093f54d1ccfb97d04b9a1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:20:57 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to get to performance counters

So this patch got accepted into mainline a while ago, without a user
ever beeing presented, nevermind actually included in mainline.  Time
to revert providing these useless exports and dead code?

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