Re: [PATCH 05/34] perf, x86: Report PEBS event in a raw format

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 24 2012 - 03:50:08 EST



* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I never can seem to figure out how to use the scripts mess :/
> acme, is there anything we could do to make that stuff usable?
> There's a ton of crap under scripts/ but I don't even know how
> to get that stuff to run.
>
> What's more, all that nonsense is in weird languages I don't
> do either, making it less useful than usual.
>
> In short, I don't consider script/ to be proper userspace
> since its bloody useless.

We should not queue new kernel bits up until there's meaningful,
well working user-space support for it in the primary tools.

Thanks,

Ingo
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