Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, David Newall wrote:
> 
> While I'm still unable to help noticing things, nobody seems to have
> presented an argument that user-space and kernel-side will need to be
> developed together.

Well, I tried to give two reasons in my reply to Martin (it's there 
somewhere in cyberspace, a couple of minutes ago). Basically timeliness 
(kernel features vs taking advantage of them) and co-development (there 
always seems to be a huge impedance mis-match between user-level 
developers and kernel developers).

			Linus
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