Re: [PATCH] IA64/perfmon: kill dead code, clean irq handling

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Oct 25 2007 - 07:18:32 EST


On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:05:18AM -0700, Villacis, Juan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The VTune sampling driver currently uses this hook for cases where it
> needs to do its own handling of the PMU on platforms that Perfmon2 may
> not yet (fully, correctly) recognize at the time of the kernel's
> release.

So killing it might be a good way to make the vtune folks more cooperative.
Remember we don't keep hooks for crappy out of tree code around.
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