linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dcookies: Make dcookies depend on CONFIG

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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:54:31 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>
Cc:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        anmar.oueja@...aro.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dcookies: Make dcookies depend on CONFIG_OPROFILE

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 1:52 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
>
> Is it time to deprecate and eventually remove oprofile while we're at
> it?

I think it's well past time.

I think the user-space "oprofile" program doesn't actually use the
legacy kernel code any more, and hasn't for a long time.

But I might be wrong. Adding William Cohen to the cc, since he seems
to still maintain it to make sure it builds etc.

             Linus