Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> That misses the point, at least for the systems as the work now. Having a
> single source package to multiple binaries is easy. Managing setups where
> you push only some of those binaries into the system gets really ugly.

Umm. But what's the problem?

Sure, you'd always update the 'kernel-perftool' package (or whatever you'd 
call it) when you update the kernel. But so what? It's going to be tiny. 
And appropriate.

IOW, where's the downside?

			Linus
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