Re: [RFC][PATCH] tracing: Remove useless 4 bytes of padding fromevery event

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:44 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> But this change will break PowerTop v1. Thus my question is, how long do
> we need to keep this wasted space in the ring buffers to satisfy an out
> of date tool?

The wasted space seems of limited importance.

More important is to check which distros have the new powertop.

F16 and F17 seem to have powertop-1.98, which I assume is the new
world order already. But maybe I assume incorrectly.

F14 (which I personally still use, since it doesn't have gnome3) is 1.13.

SuSE, Ubuntu?

                    Linus
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