Re: anyone including <linux/perf_counter.h>?

From: Kyle McMartin
Date: Wed Dec 16 2009 - 09:59:01 EST


On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:56:47AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > See the comment at the top, it's being provided to provide the old
> > names to userspace for a short time, now that the functionality has
> > been renamed to perf_events.
>
> but if it's supposed to be providing info to user-space, shouldn't
> it be *exported* to user space? it's not listed in
> include/linux/Kbuild. or am i misunderstanding?
>

No, you're quite correct, my guess would be that the original
perf_counter.h header-y line was renamed to perf_event.h, and someone
forgot to add a new one for the old header.

regards, Kyle
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