Re: [RFC PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface toget to performance counters
From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sat Feb 06 2010 - 01:23:52 EST
On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:47:48 -0500
Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:25:56PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > >From 5db5cd76f3c16c9f6093f54d1ccfb97d04b9a1ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > >2001
> > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:20:57 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] perf_core: provide a kernel-internal interface to
> > get to performance counters
>
> So this patch got accepted into mainline a while ago, without a user
> ever beeing presented, nevermind actually included in mainline. Time
> to revert providing these useless exports and dead code?
>
Frederic had a user near mainline.
I have one but it's .35 material at this point...
if you want to insist to bounce the patch out now and back in
for .35... I don't care but Frederic might.
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