Re: [PATCH] OProfile driver in 2.6

From: Tom Rini
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 11:04:55 EST


On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:19:41AM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed that the driver for the OProfile profiling system, which
> existed in the linuxppc-2.5-benh tree, is disabled in the mainline,
> even though the driver still exists. Is there a reason for this? The
> attached patch re-enables the driver.

Because it has never been picked up, aside from when Ben took it into
his tree (assuming this is the patch Anton wrote a while back, and not
a re-write Ben did). BTW, this is missing a hunk I think, unless the
arch/ppc/kernel/time.c changes have already made it in.

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Tom Rini
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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