Re: [GIT PULL] Performance Counters for Linux

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> No. I'm saying that if there's a big overlap with _kernel_ developers 
> (which there is), then they can maintain the tree.

To take the oprofile example that decided it for me: the code to actually 
support new processors was all done by basically kernel developers. And it 
didn't hit user land for almost a year, because the user-land tools didn't 
take the patch and propagate it up.

		Linus
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