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Message-ID: <1339671058.2559.27.camel@twins> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:50:58 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> To: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, acme@...hat.com, mingo@...e.hu, paulus@...ba.org, cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, fweisbec@...il.com, gorcunov@...nvz.org, tzanussi@...il.com, mhiramat@...hat.com, robert.richter@....com, fche@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com, drepper@...il.com, asharma@...com, benjamin.redelings@...cent.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/19] perf: Add ability to attach user level registers dump to sample On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:45 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > It would be a tedious endeavour since you'd need to have both output > > paths available for a good while, but it might be worth it in the long > > run depending on how painful the current format becomes. > > True. What we don't know however, it how many other tools are out > there using the kernel API directly. Right.. but if you leave the old stuff in for say 2 years and start emitting a warning on using the old stuff after 1 year.. give or take a few years we should be able to get the old stuff deprecated and removed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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