linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 17/18] drivers: Remove CONFIG

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Message-ID: <399fd39170e14b6113c2c6f465d7ba2d@vaga.pv.it>
Date:   Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:10:26 +0100
From:   Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>
To:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Robert Richter <rric@...nel.org>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Harry Wei <harryxiyou@...il.com>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>, oprofile-list@...ts.sf.net,
        William Cohen <wcohen@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        anmar.oueja@...aro.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/18] drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support

On 2021-01-14 12:35, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
> any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
> the perf interfaces.
> 
> Remove kernel's old oprofile support.
> 
> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/RCU/NMI-RCU.rst                 |   3 +-
>  .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt         |  14 -
>  Documentation/process/magic-number.rst        |   1 -
>  .../it_IT/process/magic-number.rst            |   1 -

Of course that's OK for the italian transation

-- 
Federico Vaga